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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?

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• 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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Talent Beyond Boundaries is building a world where displaced people can safely migrate for work, using their skills to rebuild their lives with dignity and purpose.

We are a nonprofit organization committed to opening labor mobility pathways for refugees and other displaced people. We link those who are forcibly displaced with jobs in countries around the world where their skills are needed, and we facilitate visas enabling them to work abroad.