Scientific Consultant/Field Application Scientist

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Job date: 2017-07-21
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Company : Genedata 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
We are looking for a Scientific Consultant / Field Application Scientist within our Genedata Screener business unit. This position offers an exciting opportunity to support, shape, and promote a successful, cutting-edge software system. You will experience a high level of interactivity and responsibility in a growing company, and the opportunity to work as part of a strong global team.

This full-time position is located in San Francisco, USA, and requires about 20% travel within North America, and occasional travel to Europe.

Key Responsibilities

  • Acting as an interface between science and sales, working with both external customer projects and internal product management and development teams.
  • Working with customers through all phases of the sales cycle, including managing and delivering scientific pre-sales, consulting, and implementation projects. After a successful sale, continuing to provide user training, consulting, and product support, and managing service projects from inception to completion.
  • Internally you will be orchestrating the work of the service and implementation teams, ensuring the quality of implementations, guaranteeing adherence to budget and timelines, providing customer feedback to product management, and supporting the sales team with product expertise in customer presentations and demonstrations.
Your Profile:
  • We are particularly looking for candidates with a degree or extensive experience in quantitative biology, bioinformatics, applied physics, or applied mathematics.
  • This role will expose you to a range of different people, requiring an ability to successfully interact with managers, scientists at all levels, and IT experts.
  • You will work with a range of screening technologies and application areas, so you should have deeper knowledge within a few or broader knowledge within several of them. For an overview of some of the technologies and applications we support, please visit our website.
  • Because our customers are mainly within pharmaceutical research, you should have knowledge of the drug discovery process and ideally experience in the analysis of high-throughput screening data.
  • The role involves some scientific software development and familiarity with UNIX systems and Python scripting, which means that proven skills within these areas are required, as is a good understanding of scientific data analysis.
  • Familiarity with Java is a definite advantage.
  • A background in statistics would be a plus.


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Additional Info:
The Company Genedata is an exceptional company. With two decades of success in research informatics due to closely-knit teams of scientists, developers and business experts, Genedata has achieved steady and continuous growth since inception. As a private and majority employee-owned organization, we empower each employee to be a contributing voice in the company operations and evolution. Our collective expertise in research informatics, combined with our open and scalable computational solutions, makes us the leading software provider in R&D informatics for biotech, pharmaceuticals, and related life sciences. We are headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and have subsidiaries in the Germany, US, UK, and Japan.

About Genedata Screener® Business Unit Genedata Screener® analyzes, visualizes, and manages screening data from in-vitro screening assay technologies across the enterprise, including very complex as well as ultra-high throughput experiments. Its screening-oriented business logic enables rapid processing and comprehensive analysis of complete campaigns.

Are you interested? If you are interested in this position, please email your resume or your CV and your motivation letter to recruitment-us@genedata.com along with the reference SF-SCR-SAM .

Legal authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer is required.

Genedata is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Genedata only accepts CVs and resumes directly from candidates. Personnel recruitment agencies need not respond.

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