Full-time · England, United Kingdom
The company
Evonetix is a start-up biotech company based in a state-of-the-art facility in central Cambridge with the mission to revolutionise gene synthesis and accelerate the exciting field of synthetic biology.
The company's technology is based on a novel silicon array, manufactured with semiconductor microfabrication techniques that enable independent control of numerous miniaturised reaction sites, allowing massive parallelism of the DNA synthesis process and assembly on-chip, in an innovative way.
The Evonetix community comprises a talented multidisciplinary team of professionals, including synthetic and surface chemists, physicists, biologists, bioinformaticians, and engineers.
The position
We are currently looking for an experienced laboratory technician to provide support to the R&D team in preparing, evaluating, and supplying functionalised chip assemblies for internal development of our technology.
You will be working as part of a closely-knit multidisciplinary team of surface chemists, physicists, and biologists, and so will possess a willingness to rapidly learn the new skills required to develop this radical innovative technology.
This position is ideal for someone who enjoys being hands-on in the lab, takes pride in following complex procedures and has a great attention to detail.
Key duties and responsibilities include:
Write, follow and review standard operating procedures to handle our semiconductor chips (e.g. optical QC, coating, functionalisation, assembly)
Write, follow and review batch record procedures to accurately and reliably make up solutions of buffers and other chemical reagents
Accurately generate, document, and report high-quality analytical testing data in line with departmental procedures
Accurately interpret testing data and effectively communicate results and conclusions to team members across different disciplines
Support technical team with lab management tasks including equipment maintenance, consumable stock management, ordering, batch tracking
Regular QC of reagents
Requirements:
The following technical skills would be advantageous, but not essential (training will be provided in areas where the candidate does not have experience)
Benefits:
Evonetix offers a comprehensive benefits package and an active Staff Social Committee. The benefits include: