vaxcyte

Associate Scientist II, Conjugation Development

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At a Glance

Location
United States
Experience
2+ years
Compensation
uity component. Salary Range: $105,000 – $122,000 *(SF Bay Area). Salary ranges
Posted
2026-02-17T19:20:17-05:00

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

titive and includes comprehensive benefits and an equity component. Salary Range:

Requirements

BS degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, or related field with minimum 2 years of industry experience, or MS degree with minimum 1 years of industry experience.

Experience in setting up and carrying out chemical reactions.

Experience with protein conjugation reactions is a major plus.

Experience with laboratory-scale protein purification methods such as dialysis, diafiltration, size-exclusion chromatography, and tangential flow filtration (TFF).

Hands on experience with analytical methods including reversed-phase HPLC, colorimetric assays, size-exclusion chromatography (SEC), and SDS-PAGE for characterization of reaction products.

Direct experience operating Agilent HPLC using OpenLab/ Chemstation software and/ or Waters UPLC and Empower software for data acquisition and analysis is a plus.

Responsibilities

Make buffers and other process solutions to support the Conjugation team during Process Characterization

Analyze conjugates with several methods including colorimetric assays and multiple HPLC assays.

Purify conjugates using a variety of methods including size-exclusion chromatography and tangential flow filtration (TFF).

Contribute to the development and execution of Design of Experiment (DoE) models for process development.

Support the development work toward a process characterization of conjugate vaccine.

Design and execute basic process development experiments with minimal guidance