Sr Associate Scientist, Biologics Discovery

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Job description

Gilead Sciences is continuing to hire for all open roles. Our interview process may be conducted virtually and some roles will be asked to temporarily work from home. Over the coming weeks and months, we will be implementing a phased approach to bringing employees back to site to ensure the health and safety of our teams.

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Job Description

Gilead is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world.

Specific Responsibilities:

The Biologics Discovery group is a specialized team within the Protein Therapeutics function that is responsible for the discovery and optimization of biologic drug candidates. We seek a highly motivated Senior Associate Scientist to join this team in a newly created position. The successful candidate will use single B-cell technologies to enable antibody discovery in support of all therapeutic areas at Gilead. The candidate will also work on cross-functional teams and be a part of a functional area specializing in the discovery and screening of novel biologic modalities across several therapeutic areas.

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

In this laboratory-based role, the successful candidate will support efforts to generate novel antibody-based therapeutics through single B-cell technologies. They should have knowledge of antibody structure and function with experience in antibody discovery technologies, molecular biology, cell culture, and basic characterization assays. Additional job requirements:

• Work cross-functionally and across therapeutic areas to carry out rodent B-cell isolation, antibody molecular cloning and reformatting, and initial characterization
• Interact and collaborate with Protein Therapeutics and Data Science colleagues to support NGS-based antibody discovery and optimization efforts
• Independently design, analyze and interpret experiments to characterize the binding and functional properties of novel antibodies
• Deliver scientific presentations in lab and project team meetings
• Maintain familiarity with relevant scientific literature

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

M.S./B.S. in biological sciences, preferably with at least 14 years of relevant professional experience and a proven track record of successful antibody discovery. Job title is flexible based on experience. An ideal candidate will have experience in most of the following areas:

• Hands-on experience in antibody discovery and development methods
• Experience with molecular biology and cloning
• Experience with biochemical assays and quantitative analysis of protein-protein binding interactions (e.g. FACS, ELISA, Octet, etc.)
• Experience with single-cell FACS sorting highly desired
• Mammalian cell culture and transient protein expression experience is a plus
• Knowledge of antibody structure/function relationships is a plus
• Prior experience with antibody sequence analysis from discovery campaigns is a plus
• Experience with high-throughput liquid handling systems is a plus (e.g. Biomek, Hamilton, etc.)
• Laboratory animal handling and immunization experience is a plus

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