Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Laboratory Automation Senior Scientist to implement fully automated analytics for product development and QC testing. This position will be located in Malvern, PA.
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The Biotherapeutics Development & Supply (BTDS) organization is responsible for the development, clinical supply, marketed product support, and life cycle management of Biotherapeutics. Within BTDS, the Analytical Development (AD) group supports method development and validation, as well as product development, release, and stability analytics via automated workflows.
The Laboratory Automation & Robotics team is recruiting for a Laboratory Automation Senior Scientist to collaborate in migrating analytical assays from manual processes to end-to-end fully automated workflows. In this role, you will collaborate with Method Development, Assay Automation, Integrations, Orchestration, Information Technology, Data Science, and end-users to increase sample testing volume while reducing time-to-result, hands-on time, repetitive strain, and assay variability. The primary scientific areas of focus will be cell and gene therapies and therapeutic antibodies, automating analytical workflows such as antigen binding, cell-based bioassays, chromatography, flow cytometry, mass spectrometry, and molecular biology.
Key Responsibilities: Collaborate within a cross-functional team to design, develop, and deploy end-to-end laboratory automation.
Create, optimize, maintain, and continuously improve high-throughput workflows using liquid-handling robots and integrated automation workcells.
Expand the scope of existing automation by introducing new functionalities.
Evaluate novel devices/instruments/technologies for the enhancement of laboratory processes.
Troubleshoot laboratory automation, liaising with internal subject matter experts and external vendors to perform root cause analysis based on thorough scientific and technical investigations.
Share knowledge and document best practices within the automation team, and support and train end users to independently execute automated workflows.
Partner with Information Technology and Data Science teams to automate data flows, ensuring data integrity through capture in appropriate electronic systems.
Qualifications Education: Ph.D., M.S., or B.S. in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or equivalent is required.
Experience and Skills:
Required:
Ph.D. with 2 or more years of laboratory automation experience, M.S. with 6 or more years, or B.S. with 8 or more years is required.
Experience operating, maintaining, developing, and optimizing in one or both of the following domains is required: 1.) Integrated automation workcells using scheduling software such as Biosero Green Button Go, HighRes Biosolutions Cellario, or Thermo Scientific Momentum 2.) Liquid-handling robots from Hamilton, Tecan, Beckman Coulter, Dynamic Devices, Agilent, PerkinElmer, etc.
Experience implementing automated laboratory workflows within the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industries is required.
Experience migrating biological or biochemical assays/methods onto automated systems is required.
Ability to gather, understand, and assign priorities to user requirements for complicated laboratory workflows, and to translate them into robust automated solutions is required.
Strong organizational, time management, and interpersonal skills (both written and oral), and a commitment in close collaboration with scientists, vendors, and end users across seniority levels is required.
Preferred:
Experience with programming languages such as C#, Python, and Visual Basic is preferred.
Experience with analytical assay/method development is preferred.
Experience with automated sample management systems from Azenta, Askion, and/or Hamilton is preferred.
Experience with instrument API calls is preferred.
Experience working with hybrid/remote teams is preferred.
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