What You Will Achieve
- As an experienced Molecular Biologist, you will work with machine learning scientists to generate constructs for UTR sequence optimizations.
- Accelerate mRNA therapeutic development through the generation of 100s of DNA templates to be used for IVT.
- Work in collaboration with other mRNA scientific and technical experts for optimization of mRNA therapeutics Drug Substance (DS) and Drug Product (DP) processes.
How You Will Achieve It
- Responsible for developing engineered E.coli cell lines to increase the plasmid quality attributes such as % supercoiling, yield, etc.
- Design and produce plasmids, gRNAs, and RNPs in a high throughput manner for the screening of various sequence optimizations.
- Optimize the manner in which cells are cultured, and cell banked.
- Optimize the plasmid purification processes used in house to arrive at products of the highest quality and purity.
- Document experimental data in electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) in a timely and accurate manner.
Qualifications/Education/Experience
- PhD in biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, bioengineering or a related field with 1+ year experience or BS/MS with 4+ years experience.
- Hands-on experience with molecular biology techniques including plasmid construction, cloning, and sequence analysis required.
- Experience building high-throughput, reporter-based bioassays.
- Knowledge of general machine learning and deep learning models (SVMs, Random Forests, CNNs, RNNs, LSTM etc), in their application to sequences and time series process data is preferred.