Senior Scientist - Genomics, DNA/RNA Extraction & Sequencing

Hlx Life Sciences; Cardiff; Sur place; GBP 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Equity participation

Health coverage

Life insurance

Pension

Generous PTO and parental policy

London lab environment

Résumé du poste

HLX Life Sciences seeks a Senior Scientist to own the development, optimisation, and implementation of DNA/RNA extraction and sequencing workflows. This hands-on role bridges R&D innovation and production-scale delivery, ensuring new methods are scientifically robust and scalable.

Responsibilities include prototyping, testing, scaling workflows, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and horizon-scanning for emerging methodologies to enhance sequencing capabilities and biodiversity database

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of molecular biology or sequencing R&D experience.
• Hands-on DNA/RNA extraction, library prep and sequencing.
• Experience in high-throughput lab environments.

Responsabilités

• Own development, optimisation and implementation of DNA/RNA extraction workflows.
• Develop sequencing workflows for Illumina and Nanopore platforms.
• Validate methods and transfer into production scale.
• Analyse experiments and present results to internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with data science, global sample collection and R&D sites.
• Horizon-scan for new methodologies to boost sequencing and database growth.
• Provide technical mentorship within the team.

Connaissances

DNA/RNA extraction

Sequencing workflow development

Cross-functional collaboration

Data interpretation & presentation

Molecular biology troubleshooting

Formation

MSc/PhD in Molecular Biology or related

Outils

Illumina sequencing

Nanopore sequencing

Automation experience

Description du poste

HLX Life Sciences seeks a Senior Scientist to own the development, optimisation, and implementation of DNA/RNA extraction and sequencing workflows. This hands-on role bridges R&D innovation and production-scale delivery, ensuring new methods are scientifically robust and scalable.

Responsibilities include prototyping, testing, scaling workflows, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and horizon-scanning for emerging methodologies to enhance sequencing capabilities and biodiversity database