Senior Scientist

GSK has an immediate opening for a Senior Scientist for mass spectrometry and protein characterization in Collegeville, PA. The candidate will primarily be responsible for conducting mass spec-based experiments (e.g. LC-MS and LC-MS/MS) for the characterization of therapeutic proteins. The candidate may be expected to develop other analytical and/or biochemical methods to further understand the structure-function relationship of proteins, while supporting biopharmaceutical development from FTIH through commercial.

The mass spec group is well equipped with modern instrumentation including Thermo Eclipse Tribrid, Thermo Exploris 480, Thermo Exploris 240, Thermo Exploris MX, Thermo Fusion Tribrid, Waters Synapt G2-S, Waters Xevo G2-XS, Agilent 6490 QQQ, ZipChip, Nano-LC, UHPLC and many other supporting instrumentation and associated data analysis software packages.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• B.S. with 4+ years of experience or M.S. with at least 2 years of experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry
• Working knowledge of protein and carbohydrate structures
• Experience with operating and maintaining mass spectrometers and UHPLC instruments
• Experience with software tools for processing protein mass spectrometry data

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have any of the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience in protein characterization using mass spectrometry, including top-down/middle-down and bottom-up LC-MS approaches
• Experience with biopharmaceuticals and their process development
• Knowledge of GxP requirements
• Experience in various separation techniques such as CE, SEC, IEX and HPLC/UHPLC
• Experience with small molecule structure elucidation
• Good technical writing skills for documentation, experience in regulatory documentation authoring
• Experience with proteomics or metabolomics
• Experience with oligonucleotide analysis
• Experience with quantitative assay development
• Ability to collaborate and communicate well with others in and across matrix teams
• Thorough operational knowledge of laboratory equipment and laboratory systems
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

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