Development Engineer Assay Development

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Laboratory Setting, Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

Position Description

Currently, we seek a Development Engineer to join the Assay Development NGS team within the Highplex department in RnD. If you want to work with a world-leading technology that enables the development of precision medicine, you might be the person we are looking for. Assay Development NGS has the main responsibility to develop immunoassays for Olink's Highplex products and to evaluate assay performance throughout development projects. This includes performing verification experiments and generating assay performance data for website. Product development is carried out in projects with members from other departments. Furthermore, Assay Development NGS also work with research and development of product concepts and ideas.

Primary Responsibilities

As a Development Engineer in the group, your duties will vary across project phases. It will consist of both laboratory work, but also data analysis and logging of information. The main tasks will be to:

• Participate in developing and implementing LIMS-system and processes for material and data handling.
• Perform experiments using Olinks PEA (Proximity Extension Assay) with NGS as a readout platform.
• Plan and perform laboratory work in accordance with set project plans and work schedules.
• Evaluate, report and document results from the laboratory work according to existing procedures. 
• Handle and register data for large amounts of antibodies, antigens and biological samples.
• Actively participate in the development of the group's and department's activities and participate in improvement projects.

Qualifications/skills

• Master’s degree in life sciences or corresponding education.
• Detailed lab experience and a few years of working experience from the industry.
• Experience working with defining and developing LIMS-system and processes for material and data handling
• Experience in pipetting small volumes and of using pipetting robots is advantageous.
• Experience of working with and optimizing antibody-based test methods as well as with PCR and NGS is advantageous
• Experience of handling large amounts of reagents and data.
• Good digital literacy in general and good knowledge of Excel.  
• Experience of working in projects.
• Fluent in spoken and written English, Swedish is a plus

As a person you are responsible, driven, proactive and solution oriented. As we handle large amounts of reagents and data, we value your detailed and structured work. You are a great teammate who finds it easy to communicate and interact people both within the group and with those who work in other departments and functions. It is important that you have a positive attitude and can adapt to changing circumstances, as we have a strong customer focus.