Product Development Scientist (Irvine, CA)

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Looking for a chance to join a leading medical diagnostics company in Irvine? READ ON!! Our client manufacures diagnostic tests that are used by hospitals, clinical laboratories, physician’s offices, and consumers around the world. Their testing kits detect medical problems ranging from allergies, ulcers, and cancer to infertility and diabetes. If Improving quality of life is something you are passionate about, this is the job for you. Our client designs and distributes products intended to enable prevention and early detection of disease and is looking for a Product Development Scientist to join their team.

Immediate opening for a Product Development Scientist, Irvine, CA, who possesses:

• Master’s or PhD degree in chemistry, biochemistry, bioengineering, or a related field

• 5+ years of experience in immunoassay development
• Demonstrated track record of solving challenging issues with assay design, development, and optimization

• Excellent organizational and project management capabilities to facilitate internal and external scientific interactions

• Experience managing direct reports

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for generating high-quality proposals, presentations, and reports for internal and external stakeholders.

• Transparent, collaborative working style

• Effectively communicates issues and proposes and implements solutions

• Ability to multi-task, manage multiple projects and rapidly learn new techniques and approaches.

• Ability to work effectively in a cross-disciplinary environment.

• Must excel in a fast-paced, start-up environment

Key Responsibilities include:

• Demonstrated track record of bringing point-of-care diagnostics from feasibility through transfer to manufacturing

• Direct, hands-on experience generating analytical assay development, optimization, and validation data packages in accordance with regulatory requirements

• Previous experience with ELISAs, antibody conjugation, protein purification, and fluorescent labeling

• Experience with cGMP / ISO 13485 compliant quality systems and the 510k approval process

• Drafting and release of standard operating procedures and batch production records

• Highly motivated and innovative problem solver able to independently design, execute, troubleshoot, and interpret experiments within a co-operative matrixed team environment.

For immediate consideration, please send your resume to admin@snapstaffing.com!