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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