Research Associate for a Quickly Expanding Biotech Startup
* San Francisco Bay Area
* Competitive Salary + Relocation Assistance + Benefits
An Exciting and rapidly growing start-up just received a new round of funding from some top investment firms and are looking to add a number of positions to the team. This company is developing cutting edge methods using big data and machine learning as core tools to work around roadblocks in the drug development process.
The Research Associate will have the following Responsibilities:
* Implement and support automation solutions for workflows across multiple functions
* Collaborate with scientists and engineers to develop, transfer and validate manual process steps to automated liquid handling and integrated systems
* support efforts to improve the reproducibility and quality control tools on our high-through workflows
* Support the day-to-day activities for high-throughput molecular biology workflows ranging from RNA isolation to NGS-based QC
* Support the development and operation of in-house sequencing and genomic assays, such as single cell and bulk RNA-seq.
The Ideal Candidate will have the following skill set:
* Bachelor or master's degree in a biological science field
* Experience with a variety of molecular biological techniques including but not limited to NGS prep & purification of DNA/RNA
* 2+ years' work experience in relevant industry or academia
* Experience with CRISPR screening
