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Company Summary

Cellarity, Inc. is a privately held, well-funded, early-stage biotechnology company that is pioneering a novel transformative therapeutic approach.

Cellarity was founded by Flagship Pioneering, a team of entrepreneurial scientists that conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category life sciences companies. Since 2000, Flagship has created over 75 groundbreaking companies that are pioneering novel and proprietary biological, industrial, and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Moderna Therapeutics, Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ:MCRB), Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS), Rubius Therapeutics (RUBY), Evelo Biosciences (EVLO), Kaleido Biosciences (KLDO), and Indigo Agriculture. Cellarity is a highly dynamic, entrepreneurial, and innovation-driven organization seeking to hire an exceptional scientist to join our team.

Position Summary

Cellarity, Inc. is seeking an innovative and highly motivated Scientist with Process Development experience in Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications. In addition to possessing technical expertise, the candidate must also be independent, goal oriented, have excellent communication skills and be willing to work in a highly dynamic and fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will work both independently and as part of a collaborative team to:

• Integrate, scale-up, streamline and optimize various NGS-based workflows.
• Design, plan and execute experiments that support Production goals and platform development.
• Identify, validate and integrate appropriate process controls to enable monitoring of workflow performance.
• Write detailed standard operating procedures (SOPs), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and other key regulatory documents.
• Assist in the design and implementation of high throughput automated workflows.
• Implement appropriate sample tracking and QC monitoring for all workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in molecular biology, biochemistry, biology or related field.
• Three to five years of lab experience preferably within the biotech/pharmaceutical industry.
• Broad experience with various aspects of NGS workflows including tissue processing, library preparation, sample QC and sequencing.
• Experience operating within a GLP/cGMP environment is preferred; a good understanding of Quality by Design (QBD) principles is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of various molecular biology and genomics techniques including RNA-seq, RT-PCR, qPCR, and other emerging technologies.
• Experience with single cell workflows and technologies such as 10X Chromium, inDrop, Drop-seq is preferred.
• Desire to learn about and implement new technologies.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot technical and scientific issues, both individually and as part of a team.
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.

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