Product Development Engineer Assay Development NGS

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Laboratory Setting, Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:
Join our R&D team at Thermo Fisher Scientific and contribute to meaningful innovations that help make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

We are seeking a Product Development Engineer to join the Assay Development NGS team within the Highplex department within RnD. If you want to work with a world-leading technology that contributes to the development of precision medicine, you might be the person we are looking for. Assay Development NGS has the main responsibility to develop immunoassays for Olink's Highplex products and to evaluate assay performance throughout development projects. Product development is carried out in projects with members from other departments. Furthermore, Assay Development NGS also contributes to research and development of product concepts and ideas.

As a Product Development Engineer in the group, your duties will vary across project phases. It will consist of both laboratory work, but also activity planning, data analysis and result and information handling.  The main tasks will be to:

• Plan and perform laboratory work in accordance with set project plans and work schedules.
• Perform experiments using Olinks PEA (Proximity Extension Assay) with NGS as a readout platform.
• Evaluate, report and document results from the laboratory work according to existing procedures. 
• Contribute to project plans.
• Improve instructions and ways of working.
• Actively participate in the development of the group's and department's activities and participate in improvement projects.

REQUIREMENTS:

•    Master’s degree in life sciences or corresponding education.

•    Documented lab experience and a few years of working experience from the industry.
•    Experience in pipetting small volumes and using and optimizing methods for pipetting robots.
•    Experience of PSX internal methods such as conjugation, hybbing, pooling and sorting.
•    Experience of handling large amounts of reagents and data.
•    Good computer skills in general and good knowledge of Excel.  
• Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical mindset
• Demonstrated success in project execution and delivery
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
• Self-directed with excellent organizational and time management skills

•    Fluent in spoken and written English, Swedish is a plus