Senior Scientist – Cell Culture/FLOW
Listed on 2026-09-24
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Research/Development
Research Scientist, Clinical Research
Work Schedule
First Shift (Days)
Environmental ConditionsAdherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Laboratory Setting
Job DescriptionSenior Scientist – Cell Culture/FLOW
Position:
Shift: Full-Time;
Monday – Friday; 8am-5pm EST
This is a fully onsite role based at our customer’s site in (Boston, MA). We welcome applicants from all locations within the US. Please note that relocation assistance is not provided for this position, and any relocation costs will be the responsibility of the candidate.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.
With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
Thermo Fisher's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner.
Our Laboratories Functional Service Partnership (FSP) team plays a direct role in advancing drug development by creating sustained groups of talent within our customers’ organizations to provide long-term support. Through this collaborative approach, our professionals bring their commitment to excellence, industry knowledge, and operational strength directly into customer environments, helping to enhance capabilities and advance the delivery of life-changing therapies.
Key responsibilities:- Design, execute, troubleshoot, optimize, and interpret analytical method development experiments with a high degree of reliability and independence to characterize cellular function and interactions.
- Perform cell culture, image-based colony assessment, flow cytometry, ELISpot, and other associated laboratory procedures with a high standard of technical rigor.
- Design and conduct experiments to evaluate assay performance characteristics, including accuracy, precision, linearity, sensitivity, and technology comparisons.
- Analyze and interpret data using Graph Pad Prism, JMP, Flow Jo, Stem Vision, and related tools to support assay development, process characterization, and technology evaluation.
- Identify trends in experimental results, troubleshoot assay performance issues, and recommend improvements to analytical methods and workflows.
- Organize, analyze, and summarize data for project updates, technical reports, study summaries, and internal presentations.
- Author and review protocols, SOPs, technical reports, study documentation, and regulatory support documents.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with partners in analytical development, process development, research, and other teams to support analytical strategy and project goals.
- Maintain laboratory organization, instrument readiness, reagent inventory, and compliance with documentation and laboratory best practices.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry,…
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