Payrate: $42.00 - $42.00/hr.
Summary:The ideal candidate is a hands-on scientist with strong experience developing, optimizing, troubleshooting, and executing cell-based assays using mammalian cell culture systems. Rather than simply having routine cell culture experience, the team is particularly interested in candidates who have used cell-based models to answer research questions, develop assays, generate relevant readouts, and evaluate compounds. Strong candidates may bring experience with imaging, plate-based assays, flow cytometry, cell-line development, reagent development, or compound testing and should demonstrate the scientific thinking necessary to troubleshoot challenging experiments and generate high-quality, interpretable data. Industry or postdoctoral experience is highly desirable, but the team is flexible on degree level and total years of experience when the candidate has strong, relevant technical capabilities. Candidates should be comfortable in a highly hands-on, execution-focused role where project priorities may shift and where they will work against established project objectives rather than independently setting the research direction.
Company’s Research and Development organization is seeking a motivated Contract Worker Scientist to support emerging discovery programs. This role will establish cell lines and fit-for-purpose cellular assays, then apply these assays to characterize Client compounds and advance mechanistic understanding.
The successful candidate will be an independent, reliable experimental scientist with strong mammalian cell culture, cell-engineering, and assay-development expertise. They will work closely with a cross-functional team spanning biology, chemistry, and protein science.
Key Responsibilities:- Culture, maintain, and manipulate mammalian cell lines using rigorous cell-culture practices.
- Generate and characterize engineered cell lines using transfection, viral transduction, genome editing, and stable-cell-line selection.
- Develop, optimize, and execute plate-based cell assays for compound screening, hit validation, target engagement, protein modulation, mechanism of action, and cellular health.
- Apply appropriate assay formats, including luminescence-based reporter assays, complementation assays, flow cytometry, immunofluorescence/imaging, western blotting, qPCR, and other fit-for-purpose cellular methods.
- Support imaging-based experiments and quantitative image analysis when needed.
- Plan experiments independently, troubleshoot technical issues, maintain detailed records, analyze data, and communicate results clearly to the broader project team.
- Contribute to the evaluation and prioritization of compounds across multiple early-discovery programs.
Basic Qualifications:- PhD in cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, chemical biology, or a related discipline; or
- MS degree in a related discipline with 3–4 years of relevant industry or academic research experience.
Preferred Qualifications:- Recent, hands-on mammalian cell culture experience.
- Demonstrated experience with cell engineering, including transient transfection, lentiviral transduction, and generation of stable cell lines.
- Experience developing and running plate-based cellular assays.
- Experience with protein-degradation, target-engagement, or mechanism-of-action studies is strongly preferred.
- Experience with fluorescence or high-content imaging, image analysis, flow cytometry, antibody staining, and immunofluorescence.
- Familiarity with western blotting, qPCR, reporter assays, and high-throughput or medium-throughput compound testing.
- Ability to independently prioritize day-to-day experimental work, generate high-quality data, and troubleshoot without frequent supervision.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets:- Mammalian cell culture: Strong hands-on experience generating, maintaining and characterizing engineered/stable mammalian cell models.
- High-content imaging: Hands-on experience with high-throughput/high-content fluorescence imaging, including Opera/Opera Phenix or comparable platforms, assay setup, image acquisition and quantitative image analysis.
- Confocal and cell-based assays: Strong experience with confocal microscopy, fluorescence-based cellular assays, experimental troubleshooting and quantitative data analysis.
Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $42.00 - $42.00 /hr. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law. Consent to Communication and Use of AI Technology: By submitting your application for this position and providing your email address(es) and/or phone number(s), you consent to receive text (SMS), email, and/or voice communication whether automated (including auto telephone dialing systems or automatic text messaging systems), pre-recorded, AI-assisted, or individually initiated from Aditi Consulting, our agents, representatives, or affiliates at the phone number and/or email address you have provided. These communications may include information about potential opportunities and information. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency may vary.You represent and warrant that the email address(es) and/or telephone number(s) you provided to us belong to you and that you are permitted to receive calls, text (SMS) messages, and/or emails at these contacts. You also acknowledge and agree to Aditi Consulting LLC’s use of AI technology during the sourcing process, including calls from an AI Voice Recruiter. AI is used solely to gather data and does not replace human-based decision-making in employment decisions. Calls may be recorded.Consent is not a condition of purchasing any property, goods, or services. You may revoke your consent at any time by replying “STOP” to :messages or by contacting privacy@aditiconsulting.com
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