Scientist - Protein Science - Bristol Myers Squibb

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BMS encompasses a broad range of disciplines to enable a robust pipeline of drug candidates aimed at serious diseases. 

Chemistry is a core capability in Small Molecule & Drug Discovery with innovative scientists working in medicinal chemistry, radiochemistry, analytical chemistry, and large-scale synthesis.  Within SMDD our Lead Discovery and Optimization (LDO) team is responsible for high throughput screening, compound storage and distribution, primary assays to support discovery programs, and compound profiling to explore drug liabilities in vitro.   LDO scientists discover and adopt cutting edge assay technologies that utilize state-of-the-art automation to drive speed and efficiency.  Our Molecular Structure and Design team embraces novel approaches to computer-aided drug design, machine learning, and structural biology.  The integration of these disciplines provides a seamless and highly interactive environment for discovery scientists to learn, develop, and innovate.  Working in partnership with our disease area experts in the Thematic Research Centers provides an exciting pathway to discover and deliver medicines to patients in need.

Leads Discovery and Optimization (LDO) is a diverse group of scientists and engineers providing critical lead discovery, lead evaluation, and lead profiling data to improve the understanding and increase the speed of discovery of new therapeutics. The Protein Science team in LDO plays a key role in enabling small molecule drug discovery by designing, expressing, purifying, and characterizing recombinant protein reagents that are utilized in high-throughput screens, SAR-driving and mechanistic enzyme assays, biophysical ligand-binding assays, and structural biology.We are seeking a Scientist who will help expand our impact on the structural biology portfolio. The ideal candidate will contribute to our entire structural biology pipeline from protein design to expression, purification, and characterization. This is a laboratory-based position.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with research program leaders in Biology, Chemistry, and colleagues in Protein Science and Structural Biology to formulate strategies for design, expression, and purification of membrane proteins to enable structure determination by cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography.
• Express recombinant membrane proteins and complexes using eukaryotic hosts
• Extract and purify functional membrane proteins and complexes
• Use analytical techniques to inform and drive construct design, protein expression, and protein purification efforts towards homogeneous membrane proteins and protein complexes suitable for structure determination by cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of academic/industry experience
• or
• Master’s degree and 3+ years of academic/industry experience
• or
• Ph.D. and experience required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, or related field.
• Solid understanding of molecular cloning, cell biology, and protein biochemistry
• Experience in protein engineering and design of constructs for recombinant protein expression
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience expressing membrane proteins using eukaryotic hosts
• Experience with extracting and stabilizing functional proteins from membranes using selected detergents, membrane protein scaffold nanodiscs, salipros, or copolymer nanodiscs
• Strong grasp of protein chromatography principles and experience purifying challenging proteins like GPCRs and transporters from low-abundance expression systems
• Experience using automated chromatography workstations (e.g., AKTA Pure) and employing multi-dimensional purification strategies
• Experience using analytical techniques to characterize membrane proteins and protein complexes, including mass photometry, light scattering (e.g., DLS, SEC-MALS), and thermal stability assays (e.g., TSA, nanoDSF)
• A record of scientific publication employing the skills listed above
• Experience applying laboratory automation to protein expression, purification, and/or characterization is a plus
• Familiarity with experiment documentation using electronic lab notebook and laboratory information management system (LIMS) systems
• Strong written and oral communication skills are required.
• Applicants should be detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to multi-task with multiple projects.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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