Field Application Scientist – Flow Cytometry

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $66k - $99k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Serve as a scientific and technical expert for customers evaluating, implementing, and using Thermo Fisher Scientific flow cytometry technologies and solutions • Deliver scientific application support before and after instrument sales • Design and deliver customer training through onsite visits, virtual meetings, workshops, webinars, demonstrations, and scientific presentations • Consult with customers on experimental design, assay development, panel design, workflow optimization, controls, and data interpretation • Troubleshoot complex scientific, application, and workflow-related flow cytometry issues • Advise customers on maximizing the value and performance of flow cytometry instruments and workflows • Collaborate with Technical Support and Service teams to resolve customer issues • Provide guidance on multicolor and multiparameter flow cytometry, immunophenotyping, cell viability, apoptosis, proliferation, cell-cycle analysis, staining, fluorophore and antibody selection, compensation, controls, sample preparation, instrument setup, data acquisition, gating, quantitative analysis, assay development, and troubleshooting • Partner with Account Managers, Sales Specialists, and Business Development teams on product evaluations, demonstrations, customer presentations, and scientific discussions • Support prospective customers in evaluating flow cytometry solutions and contribute to product adoption • Build relationships with Key Opinion Leaders, core facilities, and scientific collaborators • Represent Thermo Fisher Scientific at conferences, workshops, seminars, and customer events • Present scientific seminars and stay current on emerging flow cytometry, cell analysis, immunology, and related research advances • Communicate customer feedback, application insights, competitive intelligence, and market trends to Product Management, R&D, Marketing, and Commercial Leadership • Support new product launches and deliver technical and applications training to internal commercial teams • Collaborate cross-functionally to improve customer experience, product adoption, and scientific support strategies • Manage a geographically dispersed Southern California territory and approximately 75% travel

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, or a related life science discipline • 2+ years of hands-on laboratory experience with flow cytometry, including designing, performing, optimizing, and troubleshooting experiments • Experience with multicolor flow cytometry, including fluorophore selection, panel design, compensation, controls, sample preparation, antibody staining, and data acquisition • Experience analyzing and interpreting flow cytometry data, including gating strategies and use of data analysis software • Strong understanding of experimental design, quantitative assay development, and appropriate experimental controls • Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex scientific concepts to diverse audiences • Ability to work independently from a remote home office • Ability to travel approximately 50% • Valid driver's license • Preferred: PhD in a related scientific discipline • Preferred: Experience working in a flow cytometry core facility or shared instrumentation laboratory • Preferred: Advanced experience with multicolor or high-parameter flow cytometry • Preferred: Experience developing and optimizing complex flow cytometry panels • Preferred: Experience with flow cytometry data analysis software • Preferred: Experience with cell sorting and/or advanced cell analysis workflows • Preferred: Experience supporting immunology, oncology, cell therapy, drug discovery, or translational research applications • Preferred: Hands-on experience with Thermo Fisher Scientific flow cytometry instruments, reagents, software, or comparable technologies • Preferred: Experience delivering scientific presentations, workshops, instrument demonstrations, or customer training • Preferred: Experience in a customer-facing scientific role such as Field Application Scientist, Applications Specialist, Technical Support Scientist, or Core Facility Scientist

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results • Choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs • Employee assistance and family support programs • Commuter benefits • Tuition reimbursement • At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO) • 10 paid holidays annually • Paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave) • Accident and life insurance • Short- and long-term disability • 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan • Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with company stock available at a discount • Fully remote work arrangement • Remote home office work with travel support