# Associate Scientist

Target PR Range: 19-26/hr DOE The ideal candidate is an early-to-mid-career scientist with several years of hands-on protein-related laboratory experience. They have worked directly with protein purification, protein analytics, or both and can speak confidently about the work they personally performed. They don’t need to check every technical box. For example, a candidate with excellent protein analytics experience but lighter purification experience could still be a strong fit, provided they have the scientific foundation and willingness to learn the purification side-or vice versa. The strongest candidates will be able to clearly explain their experiments, techniques, troubleshooting, results, and individual contributions during the interview. Communication and the ability to answer technical questions effectively are important differentiators. The Protein Therapeutics (PT) group is seeking a highly motivated Associate Scientist to join the Protein Chemistry team at our state-of-the-art research facility in Thousand Oaks, CA. PT is a multidisciplinary team with broad capabilities in protein engineering, expression, purification, and characterization. The ideal candidate will have

- **Id**: 3853619
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/planet-pharma-associate-scientist>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Thousand Oaks, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T21:27:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2696
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4467183
- **Name**: Planet Pharma
- **Domain**: planet-pharma.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/planet-pharma>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 15
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Chromatography** — Optional: no
- **HPLC** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T05:00:54Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 41
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.413
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:3, agency, stale_co, wave, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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