Research Engineer 3 - Military veterans preferred

Oregon Health & Science University

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Research Engineer 3

US-OR-Portland

Job ID: 2024-29940
Type: Temporary Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Research
Portland, OR (Waterfront)

Overview

This is a temporary position with a project end date of: 09/15/2024.

CEDAR is currently looking for a Research Engineer with experience and expertise in the areas of:

• Bio/polymer chemistry
• Bio/conjugation chemistry
• Proteomics/protein sequencing

As a Research Engineer 3, you will be part of collaborative project teams focused the PROSE project to advance early cancer detection. Under occasional supervision, you will use your training and experience to design, develop, deploy, support, and integrate engineering products and services. Provide complex architecture design, infrastructure planning, installation and configuration, application development and integration, as well as maintenance and support for overall performance. You will maintain a high level of professional expertise in the field, work under minimal supervision to generate research data, design and execute experiments, and establish procedures and systems to enforce and maintain a high level of organization in the lab. You will also contribute to technical writing and presentations when necessary.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Independently manage a project in the laboratory and design experiments using molecular biology technical procedures including sample processing, functionalization and characterization of solid supports with nucleic acids and/or peptides, PCR, capillary gel electrophoresis, HPLC, plate readers, NGS library preparation, bioconjugation strategies and biomolecule purification techniques.
• Collect, record, organize, and verify the accuracy of data; keep detailed and accurate laboratory records; tabulate data, perform calculations, prepare charts, graphs and reports. May use software applications to assemble, manipulate, format and/or perform statistical analysis of data.

• Master’s degree in relevant field and 3 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree in relevant field and 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience with bioconjugation of biomolecules and biomolecules purification, general molecular biology techniques such as sample processing, DNA/RNA purification, PCR, capillary gel electrophoresis, HPLC, plate readers, NGS library preparation
• Excellent communication, analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team while being collaborative in resolving problems
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks at one time
• Must possess energy and drive to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to use tact and diplomacy to maintain effective working relationships

• Working knowledge of NGS sequencing and data analysis pipelines (PacBio, illumina, nanopore platforms)
• Familiar with machine learning principles and models
• Industry experience

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