High-Throughput Protein Production Scientist: Automation & Impact

GlaxoSmithKline; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Pension plan

Shares & savings programme

Life at GSK

Job summary

GSK is seeking a High Throughput Protein Production Scientist to join our Stevenage site. The role will run and optimize high-throughput workflows to generate and characterize protein libraries, working closely with biologists, engineers and data scientists to drive project timelines and throughput.

Your work will include developing data analysis pipelines, troubleshooting automation (CyBio FeliX), and ensuring reproducibility and data integrity across experiments.

Qualifications

• Degree in Biochemistry, Protein Engineering, Cell Biology, Biotechnology or a related discipline with extensive experience
• Hands-on experience expressing and purifying recombinant proteins using bacterial, yeast or mammalian systems
• Experience with reproducibility and data integrity in a lab environment
• Experience with automated liquid handling or robotic platforms or high-throughput lab workflows
• Strong teamwork and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Run high-throughput workflows (96/384-well plates) and process data by established analysis pipelines
• Perform ad-hoc data analysis using Excel, Spotfire, and Python
• Develop democratised data analysis pipelines for other scientists to use
• Create and execute strategies for hypothesis-led investigation of protein libraries for key characteristics
• Develop and troubleshoot automation processes (e.g. CyBio FeliX)
• Work with automation engineers and data scientists to integrate lab automation and experiment tracking systems

Skills

Biochemistry

Protein engineering

Cell biology

Automation experience

Education

Biochemistry / related life science degree

Tools

CyBio FeliX

LIMS

Python

Spotfire

Job description

GSK is seeking a High Throughput Protein Production Scientist to join our Stevenage site. The role will run and optimize high-throughput workflows to generate and characterize protein libraries, working closely with biologists, engineers and data scientists to drive project timelines and throughput.

Your work will include developing data analysis pipelines, troubleshooting automation (CyBio FeliX), and ensuring reproducibility and data integrity across experiments.