Scientist Biosynthesis & Strain Engineering

Scientist Biosynthesis & Strain Engineering

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Tulln, Austria

Join our team as a Scientist in Strain Engineering Vitamins/Carotenoids, driving innovative biotechnological production of vitamins and carotenoids. You’ll integrate strain engineering with fermentation and downstream recovery, data science, and analytical chemistry, collaborating across R&D and manufacturing to achieve strategic goals.

Your key responsibilities

• Support the set-up of a new R&D team in Tulln, transferring strain engineering capabilities from a research center in the USA;
• Direct and actively work on strain engineering projects (including work in the lab);
• Provide thought leadership in strain engineering;
• Provide information and reports on strain generation and strain characterization and support safety assessments of production strains for filing regulatory dossiers;
• Mentor and develop junior scientists and lab technicians;
• Communicate with internal collaborators, third parties, and strategic partners;
• Ensure quality and compliance in diverse bio-industrial projects.

You bring

• Ph.D. or M.S. plus 4 years of relevant experience, with willingness for short-term rotation in Lexington, MA;
• Subject matter expert in microbial biotechnology, genetics, genome editing, genomics, metabolic engineering, preferrably with small-scale fermentation experience;
• Experience with yeast, fungi, and bacteria;
• Experience with inter-disciplinary teams and external collaborators;
• Understanding of scale-up biotechnology operations is a plus;
• Organizational skills.

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