Highlights
Position: Research Associate - I Location: Foster City, CA 94404 Duration: 12 Months Job Type:Temporary Assignment Work Type: Onsite Job Description: Client Pharma is seeking a creative and highly motivated Research Associate to join our growing automation/flow cytometry team. Education and Experience: B.S. degree with 6 months to 1 year of experience, M.S. degree with 0 years of experience in biology-related field or in molecular biology, immunology, or cell biology is required.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Foster City, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $30–$35 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is with one of our Biotech clients who researches develop and commercializes drugs. The company focuses primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi.
Position: Research Associate - I
Location: Foster City, CA 94404
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type:Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- Client Pharma is seeking a creative and highly motivated Research Associate to join our growing automation/flow cytometry team.
- In this hands-on role, you will contribute to the company's pipeline of next-generation cell therapies by supporting the automation and flow cytometry core functions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and optimize automation assays to enable robust and efficient high-quality data generation for high-throughput cell-based assays
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to automation systems (e.g. liquid handlers like Bravo, Assist Plus, Mantis) and flow cytometry instrumentation
- Perform daily QC, maintenance, and troubleshooting of flow cytometry instruments Perform aseptic cell culture of adherent & suspension cell lines
- Conduct aseptic cell culture techniques for adherent and suspension cell lines
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver key project milestones
- Manage laboratory and cell line inventory, equipment, and relevant software (Benchling, MS Office)
- Present findings effectively in team meetings
Education and Experience:
- B.S. degree with 6 months to 1 year of experience, M.S. degree with 0 years of experience in biology-related field or in molecular biology, immunology, or cell biology is required
Preferred Technical Skills:
- Basic understanding of automated liquid handling systems
- Basic knowledge of flow cytometry principles and applications
- Hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture (suspension and adherent)
- Self-motivated, organized, and strong team collaboration skills
- Ownership mindset and eagerness to take on additional responsibilities.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.