Scientist

Thousand Oaks, California

Job Title: Scientist
Location: Thousand Oaks, California (On-Site)

Job Summary: We are supporting a search for a Scientist to help develop robust, user-centered automation workflows for cryogenic electron microscopy data processing, reporting, and scientific decision support. Our team is looking for a candidate who can pair strong structural biology knowledge with practical scientific computing skills to improve data traceability, reduce manual documentation, and create reusable analysis tools.

Responsibilities:

  • Meet with structural biology stakeholders to understand current workflows, identify pain points, and translate scientific needs into clear software requirements.
  • Develop, test, document, and maintain software tools and workflows that support cryoEM data processing, reporting, and scientific analysis.
  • Validate tools against representative datasets, troubleshoot workflow failures, and refine solutions based on feedback from scientific users.
  • Present progress, technical recommendations, tool demonstrations, and concise literature or technology evaluations to scientific stakeholders.

Required:

  • Deep training in cryoEM data processing, with experience in single particle analysis, tomography, or MicroED.
  • Familiarity with EPU and CryoSPARC software packages.
  • Experience working at the Linux command line and using high-performance computing clusters or job schedulers.
  • Experience developing scripts, data-processing pipelines, reports, or scientific visualizations.

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