Senior Pcr Design Scientist

2 weeks ago


Eastleigh, United Kingdom CK GROUP Full time

CK Group are recruiting for a Senior PCR Design Scientist to join a leading global diagnostics company on a permanent basis.
**The Company**:
Our client helps to protect people and society in the fight against infectious diseases by developing tests that accurately detect infections. Our client takes pride in their ability to develop solutions that target high unmet needs in infectious diseases andtheir agility in responding to significant outbreaks around the world with diagnostic products and solutions.
**Location**:
This role is based in our clients Eastleigh office.
Competitive base salary plus, 25 days holiday, company bonus scheme, private medical insurance, company pension plan, and life assurance (4 times annual salary).
**Your main duties and responsibilities will be to**:

- Developing qPCR assays: designing PCR primers and probes for targeting bacteria, viruses and parasites to contribute towards new product development
- Curating sequence data and mining public databases for sequence content periodically.
- Producing Bioinformatics Files to include in IVD-R Technical Files for new diagnostic kits, ensuring compliance with all applicable regulatory standard
- Contributing to the daily surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 sequence information to ensure Primerdesign CE-IVD assays/kits continue to detect the mutating virus.
- Writing scripts in an appropriate programming language to automate routine tasks such as BLAST searches and design reviews.
- Ensure the completion of research-related documentation (including technical summaries) in line with ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 quality management systems.

**Your Background**:

- MSc in a Life Science Subject
- Experience of primer and probe design for qPCR and/or other primer/probe-based assays.
- Proficient with bioinformatics analysis tools: multiple sequence alignment, BLAST analysis, open reading frame analysis, MAFFT and databases such as SQL
- Experience in using a suitable programming language such as Python or Perl.

**Desirable qualifications**:

- MSc in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics or related field
- Experience of working in industry, particularly with a customer focus or technical support role.
- Experience of working within a quality system is highly advantageous, particularly ISO 13485.
- Previous experience in pathogen detection PCR assay desig
- Experience in designing and validating SNP genotyping assays

**Apply**:
It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference 54674 in all correspondence.



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