Staff Scientist, Cell Culture FAS

Location: Massachusetts Employment Type: Full time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office

Position Overview

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 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.

We are recruiting a Field Applications Scientist (FAS) to join the AMER FAS Bioproduction team supporting the state of Massachusetts. In this role, you will be the lead technical interface between the internal team and external customers while providing technical consulting and troubleshooting and identifying the best cell culture solutions to meet their needs.

Opportunity to Grow

The FAS will collaborate with our internal R&D to support cell culture bioproduction & share their knowledge when working with our customers in the field. The role will engage with a diverse cross-functional team to support the needs of our customers. This role provides opportunity to work independently and in collaboration with the commercial team to bring solutions to our customers who are developing life-saving biologic therapeutics. Additionally, the FAS plays an important role in supporting R&D and Product Management by helping to identify new product innovation opportunities. Support involves customers with activities related to protein and virus production, as well as gene therapy applications. Discussions and needs will vary based on the customer, but may include, transient and stable cell line development, medium and feed selection and optimization, and process development and scale-up.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a deep technical relationship with Customer Engagement and Process R&D Teams.
• Together with R&D support develop & optimize cell culture manufacturing processes using innovative technologies.
• Coordinate and lead technical product specification, application, and protocol optimization discussions with customers and prospects for the portfolio of cell culture products.
• Lead customer technical support during product evaluations, analyze data, and collect & convey voice of customer to internal team members.
• Ensure the resolution of customer inquiries through collaboration with multifunctional teams.
• Act as an internal guide to recommend technical applications and input on development studies.

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences (Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Engineering).
• Master's or PhD degree preferred.

Experience

• 7+ years of proven experience working within Academia, Biotech, Biologics, Life Sciences, and/or the Biopharmaceutical industry in a technical or process development capacity.
• Significant experience with mammalian or microbial cell culture.
• Experience in industrial cell culture bioprocessing is strongly preferred.
• Experience with analytical cell biology techniques.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Knowledge of bioprocess workflow for cell culture and relevant process optimization and challenges.
• Experience with optimization and troubleshooting bioreactor parameters.
• Experience with cell culture process scale-up and optimization.
• Ability to provide solutions on design and development, optimization, consultation, technical support, and troubleshooting of customers upstream processes.
• Ability to act as a consultant for customers to drive optimal product and service selection.
• Strong customer interfacing skills and an ability to proactively drive problem-solving processes.
• Ability to present technical content.