Field Application Scientist Chromatics

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?  

At Genedata, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.   

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life. 

The biopharmaceutical industry is undergoing a digitalization revolution, adopting data-driven R&D approaches to develop innovative therapies quicker. Genedata’s market-leading enterprise software is fueling this revolution, enabling leading biopharma, biotech, and CRDMO companies worldwide to automate processes and leverage biopharma R&D data analytics so they can find breakthrough therapies faster. Join this digital transformation and help scientists around the world accelerate the pace of biopharma R&D. 

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About the Role

We are looking for a Field Application Scientist within our Genedata Screener® business unit for our new Chromatics product. This position offers an exciting opportunity to deploy, support, shape, and promote our award-winning new enterprise platform for chromatography data analysis in biopharmaceutical research and development. You will experience a high level of interactivity and responsibility in a growing global company.

As a Field Application Scientist, you will provide expert scientific and technical support for our customers. You will investigate customer workflows and IT infrastructures to understand their needs, design solutions, and manage projects to deliver these solutions. You will also support our sales team with product expertise, scientific presentations, and software demonstrations.

This opportunity is perfect for those looking to transition away from the bench and/or hands-on research into a technical support role aiding drug discovery efforts using enterprise software.

This full-time position is based at our office in either San Francisco, CA or Lexington, MA and offers the chance to shape, and promote a cutting-edge platform for automating biopharmaceutical research. You will have a high level of responsibility in a growing global company.

Up to 20% travel is required within North America and occasional travel to Europe.

We are offering a base salary of between $80,000 to $100,000 for this position.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide software demonstrations, training, and technical support
• Investigate and analyze the needs of scientists in protein production, downstream processing, and analytics departments to frame presales pitches and projects
• Deliver scientific consulting and professional services for customer projects (e.g. data staging, trainings, requirements consolidation, implementation testing)
• Act as interface between our internal teams and customer’s cross-functional partners including scientific and IT partners
• Apply domain expertise in chromatography to define new software functionalities
• Supporting the marketing team with messaging & generation of material

Skills & Experience

• MSc or PhD degree in biology, biotechnology, bioprocess development or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in the Biopharma, Biotechnology or Chromatography instrument industry
• 3+ years of hands-on chromatography experience, including data analysis, in biotherapeutics development (downstream processing, analytical development) and/or research (protein purification, developability assessment)
• Hands-on experience with one or more instrument software platforms like
  • Thermo Fisher (Chromeleon)
  • Waters (Empower)
  • Cytiva (Unicorn)
  • Agilent (OpenLab)

• Excited to understand chromatography data challenges of prospects/customers and to translate requirements into software solutions
• Experience with analysis of chromatographic data, preferably in a pharmaceutical/biotech environment
• Experience with a scripting language (preferably Python) and familiarity with UNIX systems is advantageous
• Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and projects
• A motivated and ambitious self-starter who can work effectively within a team
• Must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

What We Offer

Genedata is on a mission to accelerate the pace of biopharma R&D. Our enterprise software solutions digitalize and automate lab operations so scientists can discover insights faster, push scientific boundaries farther, and drive change right now. With over two decades of success due to closely-knit teams of scientists, software engineers, and business experts, Genedata has become the market-leading provider of enterprise software solutions for biopharma R&D.

Each employee is encouraged to contribute to the operations and evolution of the company. Our collective expertise in scientific R&D informatics, combined with our open and scalable software platform, makes us the essential technology for the operations of top biopharma companies and innovative biotechs worldwide.

We are headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and have subsidiaries in the US, Germany, UK, Japan, and Singapore.

As an equal opportunity employer, Genedata proudly celebrates diversity and believes in an inclusive workplace.

Next Steps

Genedata does not accept applications from recruitment agencies.

If you are interested in this position, please apply directly here.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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