SENIOR SCIENTIST, STRAIN ENGINEERING

Job description

SENIOR SCIENTIST, Strain engineering Position Overview: Sutro Biopharma, Inc. is looking for an energetic and talented individual to join the multidisciplinary Protein Biochemistry group within the Research Department and drive the research activities of the strain engineering program . You will be working to understand and improve the performance of a novel prokaryotic system for biosynthesis of secreted mammalian proteins by designing and executing experiments on protein expression, downstream processing and analysis. Responsibilities extend from gene design through strain characterization, pilot scale protein expression and processing and analysis of expressed protein product. The candidate will design & validate protein expression appropriate to the scale, number-of-samples, and required purity level for the given project, and will implement appropriate assays to characterize product and to better understand the technology and process. In addition, the successful candidate will be required to interface with external collaborators, make presentations to internal and external collaborators and senior management, and to author internal and external publications. Responsibilities:...