Staff Scientist COE, Metablomics & Lipidomics

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At SCIEX, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As part of SCIEX, you will help to influence life changing research and outcomes, while accelerating your potential. For more than 50 years, we have been empowering our customers to solve the most impactful analytical challenges in quantitation and characterization through ground-breaking innovation and outstanding reliability and support. You will be part of a winning team, enabled by DBS, that is passionate about helping life science experts around the world get to answers they can trust.

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The Staff Scientist COE, Metablomics & Lipidomics is responsible for delivering complex, customer-facing analytical workflow demonstrations that create compelling scientific evidence and support commercial outcomes. The role develops reproducible methods, standard operating procedures, benchmarks and reference data; provides scientific leadership to global field application and demonstration teams; and translates customer evaluations and emerging science into actionable product feedback.

This position reports to the Director, Center of Excellence and is part of the Center of Excellence team located in Marlborough, MA. In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Execute advanced omics customer-sample demonstrations on SCIEX mass spectrometry platforms, tailoring workflows to defined customer needs and success criteria.

Develop, validate and maintain analytical methods, SOPs, benchmark studies and reference data that deliver reproducible, decision-ready results.

Establish demonstration-readiness standards for assigned applications, including workflow protocols, instrument/software configuration, data quality, troubleshooting paths and acceptance criteria.

Provide scientific leadership to global field application scientists and regional demo laboratories through technical coaching, best-practice sharing and complex workflow troubleshooting.

Design and execute external customer evaluations and scientific collaborations with thought leaders, translating findings into new demonstration capabilities, application insights and prioritized product requirements; partner with Commercial, Product Management, Market Vertical, R&D, Technical Marketing and Quality/Regulatory teams to support strategic opportunities, improve demo cycle time and strengthen competitive win rates.

The essential requirements of the job include:

Bachelor's degree in analytical chemistry, chemistry, biochemistry, life sciences, or a related scientific discipline with 15+ years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree with 8+ years; or a PhD with 5+ years of relevant experience in metabolomics, lipidomics, small molecule analysis including quantitation, or related omics disciplines. Experience in quantitative small molecule bioanalysis is highly desired. Prior experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or contract research organization (CRO) environments is strongly preferred.

Demonstrated hands-on experience with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) workflows for metabolomics, lipidomics, and quantitative small molecule analysis, including complex sample preparation, analytical method development, optimization, validation, and troubleshooting across diverse…