Research Scientist RDIT Modelling (Biotechnology)

Role & responsibilities

General

• Actively imbibing the values and philosophy of the organization and the department.
• Efficient contribution to the overall success of RDIT by driving innovation and team performance according to objectives and targets set.
• Ensuring the security of intellectual property for PI R&D (patent applications, ensuring freedom-to-operate).
• Continuously updating scientific and domain knowledge with respect to recent literature on computational methodologies, new bioinformatics tools and databases in enzyme engineering & discovery, as well as tools for digitalization and data analytics.
• Support the Team Leader with special focus on target setting and constantly seek functional feedback.
• Prepare and present strategic presentations in order to convey key findings, computational results and ideas to the project teams and management.

Operational

• Work closely with research project stakeholder to achieve and exceed targets within specified timeframe.
• Candidate will play an essential role in Computational enzyme engineering, in silico enzyme discovery, enzyme evolution analysis, Genomics, transcriptomic analysis (RNAseq/micro array), Protein modelling and simulations using advanced sampling techniques, immunogenicity prediction, peptide design and property prediction by state-of-the-art computational tools like Rosetta, Phyre2, Genious Prime, Sequence Read Aligner, BLAST, ClustalW, Bioconductor, Schrodinger, AMBER/GROMACS, etc.
• Use programming and scripting skills to automate the process, and enhance the effectiveness and productivity. Eg. R, Perl, Bash, Python, JAVA, mySQL
• Learn new tools and technologies constantly to be updated with industry developments. Ideate, test and validate in order to launch new programs and initiatives.
• Continuously keep oneself updated with competition, industry and domain analysis and share important developments with the key stakeholders.
• Follow all standard operating procedures as defined from time to time, share regular reports and comply to all information/data integrity and security policies.
• Continuous documentation and reporting of all research results obtained within the area of responsibility.
• Update on the functional progress/issues of the project on a regular basis and actively seek functional support from Team Leader
• Constructive and active participation in all technical and functional meetings of the team.
• Foster an environment of knowledge sharing within the team
• Maintain healthy working relationships with the related teams and departments in PI R&D

Preferred candidate profile

• PhD in bioinformatics/computational biology or a related field with background in biology / chemistry / physics or informatics from a reputed University / Institute with excellent academic credentials with 3-10 years of experience

Interested candidates please share resumes on shubhi.chandnani@piind.com along with below details

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