Variant Scientist, Product/Automation Lead

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

With the advent of genomic sequencing, we can finally decode and process our genetic makeup. We now have more data than ever before but providers don't have the infrastructure or expertise to make sense of said data. Here at Tempus, we believe the greatest promise for the detection and treatment of cancer lies in the deep understanding of molecular activity for disease initiation, progression, and efficacious treatment based on the discovery of unique biomarkers.

Responsibilities:

• Operational management of the path lab, including staff scheduling, prioritizing workflows, quality and compliance oversight and managing needs of a growing lab
• Hiring, training, annual reviews, recognition, coaching, and corrective action for the histology team
• New and existing histotechs training and proficiency testing
• Audit LIMS reports daily to ensure all samples are processed in appropriate time frame and with high degree of accuracy
• Equipment operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and appropriate documentation of activities
• Identify and document occurrences that deviate from defined procedures
• Investigate and resolve all incident reports
• Ensure inventory is appropriately stocked and organized
• Maintain clinical skills and competencies to assist histotechnologists as needed
• Optimize and Validate all new antibodies for the immunohistochemistry staining platforms

Qualifications:

• A valid certification in the field of Histotechnology, and at least 5 years experience in the field including: cutting (fresh and fixed samples), staining (H&E and IHC), processing, embedding, and immunohistochemistry validation
• Completed a college degree with at least 60 total semester hours 12 coming from biology and chemistry
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to delegate tasks to others
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work with others to plan and carry out daily tasks
• Self-driven and works well in an interdisciplinary team with minimal direction
• Strong desire to build products that will save lives and change the course of cancer
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Strong problem solving skills including the ability to focus on a problem, using technical knowledge and company policies to arrive at a timely solution
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical individuals
• Ability to handle continual change and potentially stressful situations

Highly Desirable:

• Experience with validating immunohistochemistry protocols
• Experience supervising others
• Work in a CLIA/CAP high-complexity laboratory
• Experience writing, revising, and evaluating standard operating procedures
• Knowledge of troubleshooting all laboratory equipment
• Knowledge of LIMS platforms and various computer systems