Senior Engineer, Library QC

At Element Biosciences, we are passionate about our mission to empower the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate our collective impact on humanity. We have built a highly efficient product-driven organization where employees can learn, grow, and thrive in a challenging but encouraging environment. We are committed to scientific integrity, collegiality, honesty, objectivity, and openness.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer, Library QC who will play a pivotal role in defining the processes to test library preparation products and supporting these products in the field. This is an incredible opportunity for someone who is passionate about improving processes, products, and QC through scientific curiosity and problem solving. We are looking for candidates with a solid background in next-generation sequencing, library preparation, and QC assay development. This role will report to Associate Principal Engineer, Product Engineering and will be a San Diego based role. Depending on candidate experience, the position may be hired as a Scientist I.

If you possess the following and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to explore this role.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Own the process for the testing and release of library preparation related products
• Lead complex investigations, troubleshooting product performance issues and support field escalations
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and develop and transfer SOPs across departments
• Independently design, plan, and execute experiments to drive data-based decisions
• Keep current with the field of genomics, especially NGS methodologies and work closely with the R&D Applications team to develop and transfer NGS library preparation related QC protocols and process related SOPs

Education and Experience:

• Educational background in molecular biology, biochemistry, chemical engineering, bioengineering, or similar fields
• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree with more than 5 years' experience, OR Master’s with 3-5, OR PhD with 1-3 years' experience in library preparation or QC assay development
• Experience in next-generation sequencing (NGS), RNA-Seq, NGS sample preparation, NGS data analysis and interpretation
• Experience with failure mode and effects analysis and making risk-based decisions
• Posses creative, critical thinking and strong problem-solving skills
• Experienced in a wide variety of nucleic acid related assays employing fluorescence, UV-Vis spectroscopy, electrophoretic and chromatographic methods, PCR/qPCR, and other techniques
• Proficiency with analysis software packages (such as R, JMP, Python) is a plus

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to move boxes weighing up to 20 pounds

Location:

• San Diego, CA

Travel: 

• Domestic travel up to 10%

Job Type:

• Full-time, Exempt

Base Compensation Pay Range:

• $102,000 - $125,000

In addition to base compensation noted above, you will be eligible for stock options, discretionary annual bonus, no cost health insurance plans, 401k with company match, and flexible paid time off. 

Please note: Base compensation will depend on multiple factors, including geographic location, qualifications, and experience. 

We foster an environment such that all people are afforded the freedom to pursue their passions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.