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Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Biological Research

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Senior Scientist, Proteomics for our site in Spring House, PA.

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

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Do you want to use your hard-earned skills and drive to make a difference in the lives of patients? This candidate will join the growing Discovery Proteomic Platforms (DPP) group within the Multiomics Discovery Team to:

• Apply groundbreaking approaches to proteomic and chemical proteomic analysis
• Be a part of a motivated team dedicated to deploying groundbreaking technologies to support the identification and development of small and large molecule therapeutics for diseases within Oncology, Immunology, and Neuroscience
• Work in an exciting, interdisciplinary environment, overlapping the different stages of the discovery pipeline

You will be responsible to:

• Join a team of wet lab scientists enabling proteomic insights across a wide variety of programs and therapeutic modalities.
• Plan and perform wet lab proteomic activities related to target engagement/deconvolution/identification, therapeutic optimization, and interactome networking.
• Work hands on with our fleet of next generation LC-MS systems maintaining, building, and deploying high throughput methodologies to drive program and target insights.
• Present data and reports on project status at individual, working group, and project meeting settings.
• Demonstrate creativity and apply novel approaches to solving scientific problems. Propose novel and practical ideas, aligned with scientific strategies and demands.

Qualifications

Education:

• A Doctoral degree (in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, or a related field) is required.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• 4 years of proven experience in a mass spectrometry lab setting is required.
• Experience leading maintenance and deploying liquid chromatography (Thermo EASY-nLC, UltiMate 3000, Vanquish Neo or Evosep One) and mass spectrometry (Thermo QE, Exploris, Eclipse, Lumos, or Astral) instrumentation is required.
• Experience processing and analyzing large scale proteomic datasets is required.
• Strong planning and project coordination skills with the ability to handle several projects at a time in a fast-paced environment is required.
• Excellent interpersonal skills working to enable working on a multidisciplinary team is required.

Preferred:

• Experience maintaining and using tribrid Thermo mass spectrometers and easy nano-LC systems is preferred.
• Proficiency with lab liquid handling automation (AssayMAP Bravo, Beckman Biomek, Hamilton Microlab STAR, TECAN Fluent, Dynamic Devices Lynx) use is preferred.
• Experience in an industry drug discovery environment is preferred.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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