# Senior Scientist

Position Summary TARGAN is seeking an experienced Senior Scientist to lead poultry health research programs supporting product development, validation, commercialization, and lifecycle improvement. This role will design, manage, and interpret laboratory, university, contract research organization (CRO), hatchery, farm, and commercial field studies focused on vaccines, biological delivery systems, poultry health, and production technologies. The successful candidate will build productive relationships with universities, CROs, poultry companies, and industry partners while serving as a scientific leader across internal and external research programs. This individual will translate scientific, business, and customer needs into robust study plans, oversee execution in controlled and commercial settings, analyze results, and communicate findings that guide product and business decisions. Key Job Responsibilities Research Program & Field Trial Leadership Design and oversee laboratory, challenge, hatchery, farm, pilot, and commercial field studies supporting poultry health technologies. Develop protocols, experimental designs, sampling plans, randomization and control approaches, success

- **Id**: 3652708
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/targan-senior-scientist>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Raleigh, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T00:37:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T12:51:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7152
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Biotechnology, Farming & Agriculture, Food & Beverages

## Company

- **Id**: 2217043
- **Name**: TARGAN
- **Domain**: targan.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/targan>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: ADP

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 150000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 150000

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T00:37:52Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 150000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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