Intern Scientist
Job ID :
49059BR
Location :
US - California - San Jose
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Job Description
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop methods for several clinical applications, such as therapeutic drug monitoring or drugs of abuse
- Develop simple sample preparation and/or extraction strategies for blood and urine samples
- Test different method configurations and define optimum parameters
- Transfer methods to different instrument types, such as ion traps, triple quadrupoles and Orbitraps
- Exchange information with external collaborators and implement feedback
Required Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree (e.g. Bachelor’s) in chemistry, biochemistry or related discipline
- Post-graduate experience in mass spectrometry
- Good communication skills and ability to efficiently present and explain scientific results to people with different backgrounds
- Self-motivated and sense of ownership over the project in order to bring it to successful completion
- Hands-on experience with ambient ionization techniques is a plus
- Experience working with clinical samples such as blood and urine is a plus
Preferred Qualifications:
- PhD candidate
