**By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.** **Salary Range:** $82,000-130,000 base salary depending on experience and qualifications **Position Summary:** The successful candidate will join a rapidly growing company with a multidisciplinary high-tech team of Engineers, Biologists, and Scientists to sustain and rapidly impact ProteinSimple platforms. The Scientist will work in research and development area of Process Engineering team with a focus on validation assays to prove equivalence or superiority of new process modifications and guide iterative process development. The Scientist will become a local expert in Simple Western immunoassays, growing a deep knowledge of assay setup and data, and its interplay with process parameters, instrumentation, and reagents. In this role, you will make significant contributions to and collaborate with R&D Science, Engineering and Manufacturing teams to improve processes delivering cutting edge technologies to our global customer base. If you have experience with analytical instruments, immunoassays, assay development, process development, or capillary electrophoresis – this might be the role for you. If you want to make better analytical products to enable our customers to make better medicines, apply today **Key Responsibilities:** + Process development and validation + Execute immunoassays to characterize performance of microfluidic consumables and interpret relative to process changes. Create reports and present results to drive next steps. + Design and complete verification and validation (V&V) plans to prove equivalence or superiority of selected process changes and facilitate transfer to manufacturing of process updates in accordance with ISO standards + Deeply investigate trends or outliers in assay data to determine root cause from process, instrumentation, reagents, etc. + Develop new test methods to increase understanding of process and product behaviors + Create new or modify existing QC criteria to maximize performance and yield of product + Utilize advanced functions as power user and local expert of Simple Western platforms + Contribute hands-on to process development prototype builds of microfluidic consumables **Education and Experience:** + Ph.D. in biology, biochemistry, analytical chemistry, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering or a related field with up to 5 years of relevant experience is required, with 2+ years industry experience in assay or reagent development or manufacturing + Or, M.S with 8+ years of experience is required, with 4+ years industry experience in assay or reagent development or manufacturing + Experience in immunoassay development, microfluidic consumable and hardware integration, process validation, and transfer of processes from research to manufacturing is highly preferred + Experience with surface immobilization of proteins, synthetic surface modification and coating processes, surface characterization techniques is preferred + Experience developing, writing, and releasing standard operating procedures is preferred + Experience with automated liquid handlers is preferred **Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:** + Ability to design experiments, interpret data, and make conclusions from analytical instruments + Must demonstrate understanding and application of statistics, including data analysis using statistical software (e.g., JMP, Minitab, GraphPad R). + Knowledge of immunoassays (e.g., ELISA, western blot, MSD) or other biomolecule characterization techniques is preferred (Octet, Maurice, DLS etc) + Good organization, planning, and critical thinking skills are required. + Self-starter and can handle projects independently with ambiguous and incomplete information + Meticulous and attention to details to troubleshoot and improve complex chemical processes + Must have strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and in writing and possess working knowledge of analytical, process-equipment, quality control systems and statistical software + Ability to work independently and collaboratively on complex projects, within the development team and across departments/sites + Exhibit a high degree of flexibility, teamwork, and commitment to continuous improvement + The Physical Demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. + Organic chemistry lab, work with chemical reagents + Production Environment (Bio-Lab, Clean Room) + Work with potentially biohazard samples + Must be able to lift and handle items weighing 35 lbs **Why Join Bio-Techne:** **We offer competitive wages along with extensive benefits for employees and their families.** **We invest in our employees’ financial futures through retirement programs and an employee stock purchase plan.** **We help our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, internship programs, and more.** **We offer an international and diverse working environment, enriched by employee resource groups; volunteer and charity events; and employee events that build a culture of caring and belonging.** **We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.** **Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.** **Bio-Techne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.** **To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.** Bio-Techne empowers researchers in Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics by providing high-quality reagents, instruments, custom manufacturing, and testing services. Our family of brands creates a unique portfolio of products and services. Science is our passion; it drives us to collaborate, develop, and manufacture award-winning tools that help researchers achieve reproducible and consistent results.