Upstream Process Development Engineer

Employee Responsibilities:

• Technical support of bioreactor operations
• Responsible for the execution of bench scale bioreactor processes
• Familiar with basic laboratory techniques, including but not limited to: aseptic expansion of mammalian cell culture and routine analytical procedures on cell culture samples.
• Have a good understanding of cell culture parameters in general (cell growth rate, cell density, viability, metabolites consumption, and waste production).
• Responsible for daily monitoring of the bioreactor and keeping thorough record of cell culture parameters and results into data sheets and/or electronic note books.
• Responsible for data integrity and accuracy.

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Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering or relevant scientific concentration
• Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship
• Experience in operating bioreactors (various scales and platforms: ≥ 2L glass/single-use, lab/pilot scale stainless steel, AMBR250, etc.)
• Experience in culturing microbial and/or mammalian cells (plating, shake flasks, bioreactors)
• Experience performing basic cell-based assays (e.g. cell counting, optical density, metabolite analysis, imaging)
• Experience with solution, reagent, buffer preparation
• Aseptic handing
• Pipetting and weighing
• Recording data in and maintaining electronic laboratory notebooks
• Multi-factor data analysis and interpretation
• General computing techniques (e.g., MS Office)