Applications Scientist Cryo-tomography - Darmstadt, Deutschland - Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Darmstadt, Deutschland

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

When you are a part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale Join 90,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

You'll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges.

This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for diseases.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific,
Diversity & Inclusion is vital to the future success of our organization. It is not just something we do, it is who we are.

It enables our colleagues to openly share the wide range of perspectives they represent, creating an environment where differences are truly valued, authenticity is a state-of-being, and everyone feels they belong and can do their best work.

Location/Division Specific Information

You will be a part of the Applications Development team within the Life Sciences Business Unit (LSBU) of Thermo Fisher Scientific's Material and Structure Analysis Division (MSD).

LSBU provides high-value Electron Microscopy workflow solutions for high resolution biological imaging, ranging from atomic resolution imaging of protein complexes to volume acquisition of cellular compartment structures.

The position is remote and based in Oxford, UK.

Here you find more information about: Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Meet your manager:
Abhay Kotecha

How will you make an impact?

What will you do?
Develop and evaluate FIB milling strategies with pFIB on cells and tissues.

Work with collaborators/customers for training users (on site and remotely) and develop and execute proof of concept experiments with challenging samples.

Your contributions will support directly the customer's scientific endeavor as well as feed directly into new product development at Thermo Fisher.

And furthermore:

Serve as a Life Science cryoEM expert.
Provide feedback to engineering and software development teams on system performance, new design features, new hardware qualification and advanced usecase problems for milling and cryoET data collection.
Deliver marketing and sales collateral to the Product Marketing group for incorporation into marketing and sales training.

How will you get here?

This position is ideal for an experienced electron microscopist with a familiarity of cryo-FIB milling and cryo-TEM operations, theory and technique including cryo-sample preparation, tomography data collection and processing.

Education?
PhD degree or equivalent in Life Sciences, Structural Biology, CryoEM, Image processing, or X-ray crystallography.

Experience, knowledge, skills, abilities:

Demonstrated experience with sample preparation for cryoTEM with FIB milling on cellular samples and knowledge of data tomography collection.
Experience interacting with new users and highly technical customers and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences.
Demonstrated ability to systematically develop new and improved methods, protocols, troubleshooting techniques and operational optimization.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a diverse audience.
Ability to independently identify, define and implement solutions
Ability to identity opportunities (e.g. for collaborations that support product strategy)
Ability to own and lead projects
Make significant contribution to defining the framework and future direction of cryoTEM products.
Thrives in a dynamic team and enjoys being exposed to a constant variety of complex issues that need to be resolved.
Willing and able to travel domestically and occasionally internationally 25%.
Able to build a customer network within academia and pharma industry.

Benefits:

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits.
Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forwardthinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.