Cell Culture Engineer III

Merck•Bedford, MA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

MilliporeSigma is looking for a Cell Culture Engineer III to join the Single-Use & Integrated Systems R&D organization. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, executing, and reporting on projects and experiments related to cell culture process development and application testing of technologies under development. You will need to possess strong communication and presentation skills to effectively collaborate with both R&D and non-R&D groups, such as Marketing, MSAT, Business Development, and Senior Management. A key aspect of this position is understanding current trends and advancements in CHO/mAb cell culture processes and technologies within the biopharmaceutical industry. This is a full-time position based at our Bedford, MA campus.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, Biological Engineering or related Engineering discipline with 5+ years of experience in biological process development, product development, or related life science professional role.
OR Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, Biological Engineering or related Engineering discipline with 3+ years of experience in biological process development, product development, or related life science professional role.
OR PhD in Chemical Engineering, Biological Engineering or related Engineering discipline.
External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization.

Nice To Haves

Experience/expertise in perfusion cell culture (CHO/mAb): spin tube, shake flask, bench scale glass bioreactors (3L-20L), pilot scale single-use bioreactors (50L-200L).
Experience/expertise in cell retention technologies in perfusion culture.

Responsibilities

Lead efforts to design, execute, analyze, and report on process development and optimization experiments in spin tubes, shake flasks, and single-use bioreactors from 3L-200L.
Compile experimental results to give deep-dive technical presentations to R&D teams.
Compile applications data into reports & presentations to deliver to non-R&D groups (e.g. Marketing, MSAT, Business Development, Senior Management).
Generate customer facing collateral to demonstrate the value of new technologies, including applications notes, webinars, performance/user guides, etc.
Monitor scientific literature publications to ensure process development strategies are in-line with industry standards, and identify emerging cell culture technologies for evaluation.
Bring strong time management skills, balancing lab work and desk work.
Demonstrate strong teamwork skills, helping team members when needed and asking for help/delegating tasks when appropriate.