Associate Scientist Cell Culture

Location: Thousand Oaks CA

Onsite Flexibility: Onsite

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Pay Rate: $25.00$28.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Monday through Friday standard daytime/business hours approximately 8:00 AM5:00 PM or 9:00 AM5:00 PM. No significant overtime or weekend work is expected.
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

The ideal candidate is an early-career scientist with a relevant bachelors degree and solid hands-on research experience who is comfortable spending the majority of their time working at the bench. They will bring strong mammalian cell culture in vitro pharmacology and plate-based assay experience including experience working with compounds and generating or evaluating dose-response data.

The manager is open to candidates from either academic or industry research environments and places greater emphasis on demonstrated technical ability hands-on experience and independence than on a specific industry vivo or small-animal experience would be beneficial but is not required. The candidate should be genuinely interested in a hands-on Associate Scientist contract position be able to take direction and collaborate with the team and be capable of becoming productive with reasonable onboarding and training.

The primary role is to design and perform in vitro & in vivo pharmacology studies to support ongoing programs; generate and analyze data; maintain ELN entry and data recording. The candidate will successfully generate data to support existing programs perform mechanistic study to generate insights support program team and characterize key reagents and tool molecules.

This role sits within the Cardiometabolic Therapeutic Area Early Discovery department.

• Follows established experimental design and protocols to generate reproducible and reliable results with limited supervision.
• Plans conducts analyzes and records experiments and provides interpretation of data.
• Reviews literature to identify and effectively transfers experimental methods to the lab and makes modifications as necessary.
• Develops and implements new protocols to address biological questions.
• Engages coworkers in scientific discussions and communicates data/interpretation to program teams.
• Skilled and knowledgeable in the use of standard laboratory equipment and with one or more major laboratory techniques.
• Effectively troubleshoots equipment and experimental difficulties.
• Contributes to internal/external reports papers presentations regulatory documents invention disclosure submissions and/or patents.
• Follows best practices in ELN entry data recording safety and compliance.
• With minimal supervision plans conducts or monitors experiments records and organizes data analyses results and generates robust and reliable data.
• Ensures contracted studies are conducted in compliance with the respective protocol and applicable guidelines and regulations.

• In vitro pharmacology
• Molecular biology
• Mammalian cell cultures
• Plate-based assay experience including experience working with compounds and generating or evaluating dose-response data
• Experience in a Biopharmaceutical working environment

• Hands-on experience with in vivo and in vitro pharmacology skills; capable of independently designing implementing and analyzing studies with proper controls and generating reproducible high-quality data
• Technical mastery of general molecular biology and cell-signaling analysis techniques including immunoblotting immunocytochemistry RT-qPCR immunoprecipitation and ELISA
• In vivo or small-animal experience

• Masters degree; OR Bachelors degree and 2 years of experience; OR Associates degree and 4 years of experience; OR High school diploma / GED and 6 years of experience
• Degree in Biology Biochemistry Molecular Biology or related life sciences disciplines required

• Bachelors degree and 2 years of experience performing experiments organizing data and analyzing results

• The manager would like two professional references where available.
• Interview process: First step phone screen; Second step Team/virtual 1:1; Final step Team/virtual 1:1. Interview can be initiated as soon as possible.

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking financial services technology life sciences biotech utilities and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-13490

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