Research & Development Scientist

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Deadline: 30 August 2024


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  • Some details have been omitted from this job description to ensure that all candidates have an equal chance of being considered for this opportunity.

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The employer is an innovative start-up that specializes in automation solutions for microbial growth. It aims to revolutionize microbial culturing with affordable, modular equipment and advanced analytics. The company seeks a permanent, full-time R&D Scientist to support its microbial growth automation and analysis equipment. The role involves designing, building, and testing modules, as well as software support for data analysis. A competitive salary and benefits are offered, and applicants should ideally have the right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities:

  • Designing, building, developing and testing of modules associated with OGI Bio’s modular automation system.

  • Designing, building, developing and testing solutions for increased analytics of microbial cultures.

  • Designing, building, developing and testing software to control and analyse the automation hardware and associated devices

Qualifications:

Necessary

  • Bachelors degree in a relevant subject (e.g. engineering, physics)

  • Experience of designing and developing (customized) light scattering analysis hardware (e.g. spectrophotometer, DLS, plate readers, bioreactors)

  • Experience of writing code (according to best coding standard and practices) for control of hardware, preferably in applications utilizing C++/Arduino IDE.

  • Experience of writing software code (according to best coding standard and practices) for recording, extracting and analyzing relevant information from laboratory hardware.

Desired

  • PhD or MSc in relevant subject (optics, engineering, biological physics)

  • Experience of designing and developing customized optical equipment (including microscopes)

  • Experience in working cohesively in R&D teams (especially small start-up teams)

  • Knowledge of PCB and circuit-board design and assembly

  • Basic experience of working in a microbiology laboratory and familiarity with basic wet-lab processes.

 

Who can apply?

You are eligible to register on the Talent Catalog if you meet both of these criteria.

  • You are a refugee, a stateless person, or in a situation where you are displaced from your home country and unable to return permanently because you believe that you would face danger or human rights violations there, and,

  • You do not currently have another lasting solution to resolve your displacement, such as citizenship in another country where you can access human rights.

 

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