NOTE: This is a flexible term position dependent on project funding. Current funding is expected for at least 3 years.

The Bioscience and Biotechnology division within Physical and Life Sciences at LLNL seeking to fill a position for a dedicated and hardworking Biologist with skills as a Lab Automation Technician. We are seeking a life science staff member to develop a pipeline using automation for high throughput production and characterization of proteins in support of infectious disease research and countermeasure development for future pandemic preparedness. You will actively participate in process development to create a pipeline for producing and testing biologic countermeasures, principally therapeutic antibodies. Positions are in the Microbiology/Immunology or Bionanomaterials group in the Biosciences and Biotechnology Division.

This position will be filled at either the SES.2 or SES.3 level, depending on your qualifications. Additional job duties will be assigned at the higher level.

In this role you will

• Scale throughput of established lab protocols by incorporating commercially available lab automation instrumentation
• Conduct pipeline development with lab automation, including information management, for high throughput protein production and characterization
• Collaborate on process development plans and contributing to progress reports
• Work with other scientists to expand programs for national preparedness against pandemic and other infectious disease threats
• Interact with a large interdisciplinary team of scientists, project and program leaders, and commercial partners
• Publish research results in peer-reviewed scientific or technical journals and present results at external conferences, seminars, and/or technical meeting.
• Other duties as assigned.

Additional duties at the SES.3 level

• Maintain familiarity with state-of-the-art developments in the field; evaluate and transfer critical technologies for high throughput antibody function and developability screening
• Identify optimal automation solutions for: production of DNA plasmids, recombinant protein expression, protein quality assessment, and biophysical characterization recombinant proteins.
• Work with computational biologists and data scientists to develop data standards and establish unsupervised data capture processes as part of the production pipeline; data will inform computational design of biologic countermeasures.
• Contribute to funding programs progress reports and participation in multi-institution program meeting and scientific conferences.