Perfect Day is on a mission to create a kinder, greener tomorrow using precision fermentation. Leveraging expertise across biology, food innovation, and consumer products, Perfect Day empowers companies to develop, scale, and commercialize next-generation products that satisfy market demands and champion a path towards a more sustainable future.
SCIENTIST I
Department: Strain Engineering
Reports to: Principal Scientist II
Location: Bangalore
About the Company
Perfect Day is on a mission to create a kinder, greener tomorrow using precision fermentation. Leveraging expertise across biology, food innovation, and consumer products, Perfect Day empowers companies to develop, scale, and commercialize next-generation products that satisfy market demands and champion a path towards a more sustainable future.
About the Department
nth Bio, our enterprise biology platform, is the first of its kind to help partners of all sizes join us in creating a kinder, greener future through precision fermentation. nth Bio is focused on piloting and scaling our technology to partners across industries, including food, agriculture, pharmaceutical, biologics, textile, and personal care to create products in a new, sustainable way.
Position Summary
In this position, you will have responsibilities for developing & implementing strain improvement strategies for producing heterologous proteins, and for engineering strains which will become the workhorse for protein production at commercial scale.
What You Will Do
- Performs research experiments in collaboration, makes detailed observations, analyzes data and interprets results with other team members for projects allotted.
- Cloning of desired genes into the plasmids, building the plasmid chassis. Designing primers and routine screening of clones by CPCR.
- Optimize gene expression technology, growth conditions of microorganisms in microfluidic and other high throughput systems
- Routine screening of clones for titer estimation and develop methods for high throughput screening of microbes. Analyze input and output with bioinformatics methods
Other Functions
- Strong ability to multi – task and work efficiently and productively in a fast – paced and highly collaborative environment
- Make detailed observations, analyze data, and interpret results.
- Maintain timely & detailed documentation of work
- Manage and prioritize multiple tasks, progress and deadlines
- Collaborate within the team and with other teams
What You Bring
We have an opportunity to collaborate to use our unique contributions to create a kinder, greener tomorrow. The dynamic employee we seek is a (Scientist I – Strain Engineering) with these qualifications.
Education, Experience & Other Requirements
- MSc / M. tech in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Microbial Genetics, or a related discipline
- 0 - 2 years’ experience in industrial or academic research is desirable
- Experience with fungal or yeast or Bacillus or coli molecular biology
- Experience with molecular biology principles required for plasmid construction and design, strain engineering, and gene expression optimization.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Bioinformatics skills (Sequence alignments, BLAST, etc.)
- Sterile working technique
- Excellent organizational skills
- Attention to details in experimental operation, lab safety, and documentation
- Strong interpersonal skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to adapt and excel in a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to trouble shoot problematic situations/experimental events
Additional knowledge and skills desired
- High levels of curiosity and passion to learn new things.
- Demonstrated ability to innovate, troubleshoot, and thrive in a dynamic cross-functional team environment.
Perfect Day is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
