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Vaxcyte
San Carlos, California, United States
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Join our Mission to Protect Humankind!
Vaxcyte is a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company engineering high-fidelity vaccines to protect humankind from the consequences of bacterial diseases, which have serious and costly health consequences when left unchecked. Working to eradicate or treat bacterial infections such as invasive pneumococcal disease, Group A Strep, and Shigella is just the beginning. Our path to success is clear and well-defined, and Vaxcyte is set up to go the distance.
we do is every bit as important as HOW we do it! Our work together is guided by four enduring core values:
*RETHINK CONVENTION: We bring creative and intellectual diversity to every facet of the work we do in order to innovate and re-innovate the way vaccines are delivered.
*AIM HIGH: We embody our collectively audacious goal to courageously make the most complex biologics ever attempted to protect humankind.
*LEAD WITH HEART: Everyone leads at Vaxcyte with a kindness-first, inclusive approach to collaboration and vigorous debate that advances our business objectives.
*MODEL EXCELLENCE: The magnitude of our challenge requires our shared commitment to demonstrating integrity, accountability, equality and clarity across communications and decision making.
Vaxcyte is looking for a Scientist II, Conjugation Development. The candidate’s primary responsibility will be to lead and execute experimental activities that support company’s pneumococcal conjugate vaccine program with a focus on developing a deeper understanding of the conjugation process. In parallel, the candidate will work on conjugation process development for Vaxcyte’s pipeline programs contributing to process optimization, scalability, and technical readiness for future clinical manufacturing.
Specifically, this will include preparation, purification, and analytical characterization of chemically modified polysaccharides and polysaccharide-protein conjugates. The ideal candidate will have significant laboratory experience and an excellent understanding of analytical chemistry principles. The successful candidate will be expected to design, execute, and troubleshoot experiments with minimal guidance.
The candidate will also contribute when needed to a range of related areas such as analytical development and stability studies. Responsibilities will additionally include record management, data presentation at group meetings, authorship of laboratory protocols and development reports, communication with external organizations during tech transfer, and actively contributing to collaborative studies with other members of the conjugation group.
Optimize and troubleshoot multi-step syntheses of protein-polysaccharide conjugates.
Purify polysaccharides and conjugates using a variety of methods including dialysis, size-exclusion chromatography, and tangential flow filtration (TFF).
Analyze polysaccharides and conjugates with a variety of analytical methods. Develop new laboratory workflows and analyses beyond established procedures when appropriate.
Advise team members on experimental design, interpretation of results, and troubleshooting.
Model and train team members on best practices for adherence to protocols and data management.
Serve as a subject matter expert during tech transfer of conjugation processes to contract manufacturing organizations.
Maintain highly organized records to enable optimization and assessment of reproducibility.
Attend team meetings ready to provide updates on conjugation development progress.
Compensation
The compensation package will be competitive and includes comprehensive benefits and an equity component.
$146,000 – $171,000
Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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Qualified and interested candidates should apply to current openings at vaxcyte.com/careers.
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