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| Job Title: |
Senior/Principal Fermentation Engineer/Scientist |
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| Company: |
LS9, Inc. |
| Job Location: |
South San Francisco, CA |
| Description: |
LS9 seeks highly motivated Sr./Principal Fermentation Engineer/Scientist to design, execute, and scale-up novel fermentation processes to produce fuels and chemicals from a variety of biomass sources. The ideal candidate will be experienced in media design and microbial fermentation process development, at both the shake flask and various fermentor scales. This hands-on position requires a desire and ability to work as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, as well as the demonstration of a high degree of flexibility, creativity, and initiative applied to the various duties and aspects of the position. |
| Key Responsibilities: |
- Execute and analyze critical fermentation process development experiments within the scope of the relevant corporate projects and goals. Experiments will be conducted at a variety of scales, ranging from bench to pilot scale fermentors.
- A solid understanding of fermentation equipment and analytical instrumentation and relevant scientific/engineering principles.
- Experience with both rational and statistical design of experiments, the development of fermentation media, culture condition and the principles of experiment design.
- Participate in the development and definition of representative lab and pilot scale models of industrial scale fermentation processes.
- Conduct the evaluation of various strains to support molecular biologists in their strain development /optimization efforts.
- Keep abreast of current literature and the state of the art in fermentation science and their potential application to LS9's internal projects.
- Continuously develop contributions to the company's intellectual property portfolio, author publications in the scientific literature, and present at industry conferences.
- Analyze, summarize, and present experimental results to others in the company to expedite the development of our integrated product development process in a collaborative team environment.
- Assist in the technical process transfer and management of LS9's contract sites.
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| Qualifications: |
PhD. in Chemical Engineering/Microbiology or related scientific field. 5+ years of post-doc/industry experience required. B.S. or M.S. level candidates with additional relevant industrial experience will also receive consideration.
Ability to work in a fast paced and team oriented environment. Ability to create new and innovative technologies or provide support in determining cost effective research methodologies and implementations. Excellent verbal/written communication skills are required. Working knowledge of molecular biology and biochemistry is a plus. |
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