Title: Senior Scientist - Fungal Metabolic Engineering & Strain Development
Location: Gurugram
About Us
Absolute is a bioscience company founded with the idea of a shared future where both people & planet win together. The company's vision is to build a thriving future for people and the planet by harnessing the power of nature, science & exponential innovation. Absolute's Agtech businesses encompass – Climate Solutions, Soil Health testing, Crop Insurance & Tech driven commodities trade. Absolute's revolutionary businesses are backed by Xenesis, a stellar team of 150+ scientists making breakthroughs in their fields.
Absolute is backed by Sequoia, Tiger Global, and Alpha Wave, Absolute's angels include
Nadir Godrej- MD of Godrej Industries, Kamal Aggarwal- Promoter of Haldiram, and Kunal Shah- founder of CRED, among others.
Job Description:
We are currently looking for an experienced Sr. Scientist to work in the field of synthetic biology and Microbial Genetics.
Job responsibilities includes:
- Work with laboratory strains of fungi using aseptic technique for culturing, maintenance, and transformation.
- Perform advanced molecular biology techniques like recombinant cloning, assembling, genome editing and recombinant knockouts.
- Perform genome editing of micro-organisms for improved phenotype and heterologous production of recombinant molecules.
- Carry out fermentation studies for recombinant strains for yields and scale up studies.
- Design, implement, and characterize novel gene constructs.
- Metabolic engineering of recombinant strains and analyzing flux.
- Prepare and execute established methods and SOPs.
- Deliver high-quality results in a timely manner and communicate the same with stakeholders.
- Drive process improvements
- Maintain all equipment, data and records as per specifications.
Educational and Essential Qualifications:
- M.Sc./Ph.D. in molecular biology, microbiology, biochemistry, biotechnology, synthetic biology or related field.
- 6+ years of postdoctoral experience in academic, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology industry settings working different recombinant platforms for production of novel molecules like flavours and fragrances.
- Experience in metabolic pathways engineering of fungal systems using advanced molecular biology tools.
- Experienced in working with metabolic pathways prediction tools.
- A strong grasp of fundamental molecular biology techniques is essential.
- Exposure to gene circuit design, cell engineering, strain development, is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to work with highly skilled teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and technical environment.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of conveying technical information in a clear and thorough manner.
- Comfortable delivering against challenging commitments.
- Confident, execution focused, team oriented, with an ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment.
- A desire to work in the impact space, with a passion to make the world a better place.
NOTE : We are specifically looking for candidates with core experience in fungal systems and strain engineering (metabolic/genetic engineering). If your work has not directly involved this, this role may not be the right fit.
