Senior scientist job description
A senior scientist is a highly trained and experienced professional who might be responsible for a number of things, from conducting tests and experiments to presenting findings, and even managing and training a team of junior scientists.
Example senior scientist requirements on a job description
- Advanced degree in Science or related field, such as PhD.
- Demonstrated experience in leading a research team.
- Proven track record of research publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- High level of expertise in the scientific field.
- Knowledge of relevant regulations and standards.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Ability to multitask and work with tight deadlines.
- Flexibility and adaptability to changing work environments.
- High degree of professionalism, integrity, and commitment.
Senior scientist job description example 1
Pfizer senior scientist job description
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Thursday, October 20th from 3:00 - 5:30 pm est
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About the Position:
As a Senior Scientist, you will be at the center of our operations and you ll find that everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to quality. You will be a member of our growing Assay Development team contributing to the development and maintenance of new assays evaluating the efficacy of our vaccines or the epidemiology of disease. In that function, you will work the Bacterial Vaccine and Technology group to generate and characterize new monoclonal antibodies to disease targets. In addition, you will evaluate and introduce new technologies into the assay development and clinical testing workflow
You will be recognized as a technical expert and a scientific contributor. With your deep knowledge of the discipline, you will be an active team member whose decisions impact the project. You will be using your scientific judgment to adapt standard methods and techniques by applying prior work experience. You will be forecasting and planning resource requirements for your project team. Your creativity in developing novel processes and new ideas will be used frequently.
It is your innovative scientific temperament that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.
Requirements:
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Bachelor's Degree
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9+ years of experience
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Expertise and hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture, flow cytometry/FACS, immunofluorescence/confocal microscopy, ELISA.
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Broad experience in generating cell fusions, hybridomas and characterizing monoclonal antibodies
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Technical knowledge of B-cell cloning, epitope mapping, monoclonal purification (small and large scale)
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Ability to perform complex data analysis.
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Excellent oral and written communication skills
About Pfizer:
At Pfizer, we re driven to discover the cure driven to significantly improve the lives of everyone...everywhere. If you re similarly driven, you ll find there s no better place to begin and continue your career than at Pfizer.
Science is the foundation of our company. This is why it s no surprise that our scientists are among the best in the world. We arm them with the resources, technology, and facilities they need to solve some of the world s most complex health challenges. So, it s no wonder that the most driven scientists in the world choose to do their life s passion at Pfizer.
Join us and you ll partner with colleagues of diverse backgrounds and abilities, people who contribute to all aspects of what we do from drug development to marketing, technology to sales, and so much more.
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Senior scientist job description example 2
Quest Diagnostics senior scientist job description
Look for more than answers.
At Quest, we are on a continuous journey of discovery and development. It's this attitude that has made us an industry leader and the #1 Diagnostic Lab in the US. For those joining us, we offer exciting and fast moving career opportunities where you can affect change at a rate unheard of in many organizations of our size and scope. While we invest in and develop technology to drive our innovations, our ongoing success relies on our people.
Sr Scientist, Bioinformatics Research, the role:
As a Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist you will develop new approaches for data analyses and conduct bioinformatics research with significant impact to the organization or high-priority projects. Develop and execute novel computational approaches to analyze bioinformatics problems and datasets. Provide technical/scientific leadership in design and development of new approaches to complex problems to meet significant project and/or major organizational initiatives. Guide and mentor other scientists and project team members including collaboration with wet lab scientists to accomplish project objectives.
Prepare patent applications, reports, scientific publications, conference presentations, and other communications of analysis results related to significant scientific research aligned with business objectives such as new technology development, product/process development and improvement.
This professional can work 100% remotely.
To qualify, the ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
PhD with 3+ year experience, or MS with 5+ years experience, or BS with 7+ years experience in an industrial or academic setting working with clinical and biological data and underlying technologies including bioinformatics methods, database development, query/scripting/programming languages, cloud development, agile methodology, DevOps and other data analysis tools. Experience working in a clinical environment preferred.
Significant relevant publication or patent record, and/or at least four years of relevant R&D experience in bioinformatics/algorithm development of relevant technologies. Relevant technologies include non-invasive prenatal screening, liquid biopsy, somatic variant calling, WGS, CNV/structural variant calling, pop gen, polygenic risk evaluation, imputation, etc.
R, Python, Git, SQL, AWS, Kubernetes
Apply Today
Join us for competitive benefits and development opportunities in a progressive and supportive environment. Help us improve our service, and the experiences of our patients and colleagues. Work with us and together we can be better.
Your Quest career. Seek it out.
All requirements are subject to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Quest Diagnostics is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Disabled / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity.
Senior scientist job description example 3
Bosch USA senior scientist job description
The focus of our global research on Integrated Human-Machine Intelligence includes Big Data Visual Analytics, Explainable AI, Audio Analytics, NLP, Conversational AI, Cloud Robotics, Mixed Reality and Smart Wearables, etc. We develop intuitive, interactive, and intelligent solutions to enable inspiring UX for Bosch products and services in application areas such as autonomous driving, car infotainment and driver assistance systems (ADAS), Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT), security systems, smart home and building solutions, health care, and robotics.
As a part of our global research unit, our **Conversational AI & Natural Language Processing** group is responsible for shaping the future user experience of Bosch products by developing cutting-edge technologies and prototype systems in the fields of natural language processing and understanding, knowledge representation and reasoning, question answering, information retrieval, dialogue management, knowledge-based assistance, speech processing, and etc. We work on solutions to derive useful information and knowledge from textual data, and enable natural, intuitive and intelligent personal assistance. We work with internal partners at various Bosch business units to transfer our ideas and solutions into future products. We also actively collaborate with leading groups in academia and industry to promote research ideas and publish research findings in internationally renowned conferences and journals, e.g., ACL, EMNLP, ISWC, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICASSP.
The Bosch Research and Technology Center North America with offices in Sunnyvale, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cambridge, Massachusetts is part of the global Bosch Group (www.bosch.com), a company with over 70 billion euro revenue, 400,000 people worldwide, a very diverse product portfolio, and a history of over 125 years. The Research and Technology Center North America (RTC-NA) is committed to providing technologies and system solutions for various Bosch business fields primarily in the areas of Integrated Human-Machine Intelligence, Robotics, Energy Technologies, Internet Technologies, Circuit Design, Semiconductors and Wireless, and MEMS Advanced Design.
The focus of our global research on Integrated Human-Machine Intelligence includes Big Data Visual Analytics, Explainable AI, Audio Analytics, NLP, Conversational AI, Cloud Robotics, Mixed Reality and Smart Wearables, etc. We develop intuitive, interactive, and intelligent solutions to enable inspiring UX for Bosch products and services in application areas such as autonomous driving, car infotainment and driver assistance systems (ADAS), Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT), security systems, smart home and building solutions, health care, and robotics.
As a part of our global research unit, our **Conversational AI & Natural Language Processing** group is responsible for shaping the future user experience of Bosch products by developing cutting-edge technologies and prototype systems in the fields of natural language processing and understanding, knowledge representation and reasoning, question answering, information retrieval, dialogue management, knowledge-based assistance, speech processing, and etc. We work on solutions to derive useful information and knowledge from textual data, and enable natural, intuitive and intelligent personal assistance. We work with internal partners at various Bosch business units to transfer our ideas and solutions into future products. We also actively collaborate with leading groups in academia and industry to promote research ideas and publish research findings in internationally renowned conferences and journals, e.g., ACL, EMNLP, ISWC, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICASSP.
The Bosch Research and Technology Center North America with offices in Sunnyvale, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cambridge, Massachusetts is part of the global Bosch Group (www.bosch.com), a company with over 70 billion euro revenue, 400,000 people worldwide, a very diverse product portfolio, and a history of over 125 years. The Research and Technology Center North America (RTC-NA) is committed to providing technologies and system solutions for various Bosch business fields primarily in the areas of Integrated Human-Machine Intelligence, Robotics, Energy Technologies, Internet Technologies, Circuit Design, Semiconductors and Wireless, and MEMS Advanced Design.
The focus of our global research on Integrated Human-Machine Intelligence includes Big Data Visual Analytics, Explainable AI, Audio Analytics, NLP, Conversational AI, Cloud Robotics, Mixed Reality and Smart Wearables, etc. We develop intuitive, interactive, and intelligent solutions to enable inspiring UX for Bosch products and services in application areas such as autonomous driving, car infotainment and driver assistance systems (ADAS), Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT), security systems, smart home and building solutions, health care, and robotics.
As a part of our global research unit, our **Conversational AI & Natural Language Processing** group is responsible for shaping the future user experience of Bosch products by developing cutting-edge technologies and prototype systems in the fields of natural language processing and understanding, knowledge representation and reasoning, question answering, information retrieval, dialogue management, knowledge-based assistance, speech processing, and etc. We work on solutions to derive useful information and knowledge from textual data, and enable natural, intuitive and intelligent personal assistance. We work with internal partners at various Bosch business units to transfer our ideas and solutions into future products. We also actively collaborate with leading groups in academia and industry to promote research ideas and publish research findings in internationally renowned conferences and journals, e.g., ACL, EMNLP, ISWC, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICASSP.
**Job Description**
+ Drive advanced research on Natural Language Processing (NLP) to address academic and industrial challenges in NLP fields
+ Work with an international team of experts to transfer and apply the Bosch in-house NLP innovations and 3rd-party NLP solutions to Bosch products and services of information extraction, knowledge-rich assistance, question answering, and information retrieval
**Qualifications**
**Basic Qualifications**
+ Ph.D. in computer science or engineering
+ 5+ years of research experience in natural language processing, machine learning, and related fields
+ 5+ years hands-on experience on state-of-the-art NLP / ML libraries and toolkits
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Publication record in top NLP / ML venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, TACL, AAAI, etc.)
+ R&D experiences on low-resource NLP
+ R&D experiences on explainable NLP
+ R&D experiences on knowledge representation and reasoning and/or neural symbolic reasoning
+ 3+ years experiences in industrial research
+ Hands-on experience on production of NLP systems
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