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Senior Scientist, R&D Assay Development
Natera Austin, TX Posted Sep 17
About the role
The Natera R&D Department is looking for a highly motivated Senior Scientist to join the rapidly growing assay development team to help build the future of Natera.
What you'll do
- Design development, verification, and validation studies with stakeholder input and coordinate efforts to achieve milestones within established timelines
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, such as automation, engineering, R&D, bioinformatics, and lab operations, to develop robust, automated workflows
- Lead the integration testing of automated workflows with software LIMS systems. Support the design and execution of integration testing to ensure data integrity between automation and digital systems
- Plan, execute, analyze and present data for moderate to high complexity experiments with hands-on work on troubleshooting
- Identify the root cause of problems and develop solutions to resolve problems effectively
- Perform basic data analysis (e.g. Excel, JMP) and comfortable to utilize AI agents like Gemini and Claude. Coordinate the analysis of studies with biostatistics and bioinformatics teams
What you'll need
Natera lists the full requirements on its posting.