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Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono.\nReady to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.\nUnited As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.\nThis role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.\nYour Role:\nEMD Serono is hiring a functional genomics specialist Scientist/Senior Scientist to join the Discovery Biology group within Research Unit Neuroscience & Immunology (RU-N&I) at our state-of-the-art research facility in Billerica, MA. We are building a functional genomics group to collaborate with an international team of scientists, contributing to the discovery of drugs for neurodegenerative/neuroinflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Working with disease biology experts, the functional genomics team will use gene editing methods to identify and validate new targets as well as to generate cell models. Our cross-functional group will explore novel biology and deliver genetic evidence to advance the Neuroscience & Immunology pipeline.\nWhat you’ll do\nIndependently plan, execute and lead in vitro studies using complex cell systems\nLeverage your skills in advanced CRISPR techniques and cell biology to identify and validate new targets and advance our pipeline\nUse pooled, arrayed, and single cell functional genomics methods to interrogate disease biology at scale\nWork with a range of NGS, imaging, and FACS-based readouts to explore the roles of candidate genes in neurologic and immunologic disease\nWork with disease biology experts to develop cellular models and assays\nRecord data accurately in an Electronic Laboratory Notebook and maintain records per company policy and legal requirements\nPrepare data reports and present to lab heads, project teams, and at external meetings\nProvide technical support to colleagues in own area of expertise when necessary\nWork closely with members in RU-N&I to support departmental goals\nWho You Are\nMinimum Qualifications:\nPhD in a life science field, (e.g., Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics, etc.)\nOR\nMasters Degree in a life science field (e.g., Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics, etc.) with 6+ years of lab academic or industry experience \nAND\n2+ years’ experience with complex cell culture systems and primary cells or iPSCs\n2+ years using and designing gene editing tools for high throughput applications and hands-on execution of pooled or arrayed CRISPR or siRNA screens\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBackground in immunology or neuroscience, with experience working with in vitro cell systems e.g. iPSC differentiation or immune cell isolation\nExperience analyzing and disseminating data to support key decision making\nBroad experience in molecular and cellular biology, including\nMulticolored FACS and analysis\nHigh-content imaging and analysis \nNGS library preparation\nSingle cell omics data generation and principals of analysis \nLentiviral vector design and experience packaging and using lentivirus for gene expression\nReporter construct design\nFamiliarity with documentation practices in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology discovery setting\nStrong verbal and written communication skills and practiced at communicating research findings to cross-disciplinary teams\nCurious, highly collaborative scientist with enthusiasm for exploring novel biology\nPay Range for this position: $96,600 - 159,600\nThe offer range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base pay compensation for this position. 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