# Senior Associate Scientist

Job Description Senior Associate Scientist / Scientist, Companion Animals/Equine Biologicals Zoetis Veterinary Medicine Research and Development (VMRD), Companion Animal / Equine Biologicals (CAE) group in Kalamazoo, MI is seeking a senior associate scientist or scientist to contribute to the discovery and development of vaccines for canines, felines, and equines. The ideal candidate will have hands-on laboratory experience in the areas of virology, cell culture, and molecular biology. Experience in cell line development, assay development, in vivo models, and vaccine development is also desirable. Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills are essential. POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsible for hands on laboratory work in the areas of virology, cell culture, bacteriology, and molecular biology in CAE vaccine development projects. Design and implement laboratory experiments, maintain proper documentation, conduct data analysis and develop scientific conclusions from the experiments undertaken/completed, and report data to supervisor and project teams. Ability to work across multiple vaccine development project teams to design, develop, and evaluate safet

- **Id**: 4190842
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zoetis-senior-associate-scientist-2>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Kalamazoo, 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**: 2026-11-12T19:16:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T19:16:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6356
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Diagnostic Tests & IVD, Veterinary Medicine, Vaccines

## Company

- **Id**: 7180
- **Name**: Zoetis
- **Domain**: zoetis.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zoetis>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 97
- **Open postings**: 20
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.05
- **Repost share**: 0.1
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Cell Culture** — Optional: no
- **Gmail** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: yes
- **Outlook** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T19:16:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 58 · green card filings: 31; Filings 12m: 58

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T21:55:52Z

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