Senior Scientist, Molecular Biology

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the scientific Senior Scientist Business Owner for digital tools, workflows, and data that support molecular cloning and the design of individual constructs and plasmids in biologics discovery.

• Facilitate connections between scientists and technology teams by converting scientific requirements into product priorities, system specifications, and scalable digital capabilities.

• Assist scientists in utilizing and enhancing tools that aid in construct design, sequence registration, cloning, and other related experimental processes.

• Take ownership of the scientific data domain related to cloning workflows.

• Establish representations and relationships for sequences, components, constructs, vectors, plasmids, molecule formats, and associated experiments across scientific applications.

• Collaborate with Business Owners, software engineers, business analysts, and data teams to implement data models and integrate systems.

• Lead discussions with molecular biologists, cloning scientists, protein engineers, and other users involved in biologics discovery.

• Transform scientific requirements into data and workflow specifications and articulate scientific concepts to technical teams.

• Collaborate with technology teams throughout the phases of design, implementation, testing, release, and adoption.

• Direct requirements reviews and oversee user training and acceptance testing.

• Organize release communications, training, and the adoption of new capabilities.

• Define standard procedures for capturing high-quality molecular biology design data.

• Enhance data quality and readiness for downstream automation, analytics, and ML/AI-driven discovery.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Doctorate degree OR a Master’s degree with 2 years of relevant experience OR a Bachelor’s degree with 4 years of relevant experience.

• A degree in Molecular Biology, Protein Engineering, Structural Biology, or a related scientific discipline.

• In-depth knowledge of molecular cloning and plasmid design workflows.

• Previous hands-on experience in cloning or individual construct design within a research or biotechnology setting.

• Proficiency in antibody-based molecule formats, including antibody fragments and multispecifics.

• Experience in translating scientific workflows into informatics tools, structured data, standardized processes, and implementation guidance.

• Background in owning or managing a scientific product, workflow, data domain, roadmap, or feature backlog.

• Familiarity with scientific data models, controlled terminology, metadata, identifiers, entity relationships, versioning, lineage, and cross-system data integration.

• Experience with sequence design, construct registration, laboratory informatics, or similar scientific platforms.

• Proven record of leading requirements reviews, user acceptance testing, troubleshooting, release readiness, and user adoption.

• Knowledge of agile software delivery and preparing scientific data for analytics or ML/AI applications.

• Strong skills in facilitation, prioritization, problem-solving, organization, and communication.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across scientific and technical teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package that includes a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous contributions from the company.

• Coverage for group medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• A discretionary annual bonus program.

• Stock-based long-term incentives.

• Award-winning time-off plans.

• Flexible work models where feasible.

• Opportunities for career development.

• Support for work/life balance.