Sr Field Application Scientist, Downstream Bioproduction (Northern California)
About The Position
Join our collaborative team at Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Staff Scientist, Field Applications and contribute by enabling customers to solve complex biologics purification and processing challenges. You'll serve as a technical expert in downstream process development, providing comprehensive support across our technology platforms while building strong relationships with customers, sales teams, and internal partners. This role offers the opportunity to work with creative scientific teams and contribute to breakthroughs that make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Working both independently and collaboratively, you'll deliver technical training, optimize applications, troubleshoot complex issues, and demonstrate our technologies through presentations. Your expertise will help customers achieve their research and development goals while supporting the adoption of our solutions from lab to manufacturing scale bioproduction. You'll have the opportunity to support colleagues, lead strategic projects, and contribute to product development by providing valuable customer feedback to our R&D teams. This position combines scientific expertise with customer engagement, allowing you to contribute to both technical advancement and business growth.
Requirements
- Advanced Degree plus 6 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 8 years of experience with relevant chromatography / bioprocessing techniques
- Technical knowledge in one or more core application areas (protein purification, chromatography, process development, or related fields)
- Successful experience in customer-facing technical support and training
- Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences
- Problem-solving abilities and analytical troubleshooting expertise
- Project management and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams
- Presentation and technical writing capabilities
- Fluency in English required
- Ability to travel up to ~50% within assigned territory
- Valid driver's license and passport for international travel where required
- Experience with downstream method development and optimization
Nice To Haves
- Preferred Fields of Study: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Materials Science, Engineering, or related scientific field
- Additional languages beneficial
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and quality systems (GMP, GLP) preferred
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical expert in downstream process development, providing comprehensive support across our technology platforms.
- Build strong relationships with customers, sales teams, and internal partners.
- Deliver technical training.
- Optimize applications.
- Troubleshoot complex issues.
- Demonstrate our technologies through presentations.
- Support colleagues.
- Lead strategic projects.
- Contribute to product development by providing valuable customer feedback to our R&D teams.
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
