Senior Scientist, New Product Development

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Phenomenex, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. 

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Phenomenex isn’t your typical scientific company. Founded nearly 40 years ago, Phenomenex is a global technology leader committed to developing novel analytical chemistry solutions that solve the separation and purification challenges of researchers, advancing the future of scientific analysis and investigation, ensuring the quality of essentials like your food, water, shampoo, and even cold medication. Be part of our global success and together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

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The Senior Scientist, New Product Development is responsible for developing and commercializing innovative clinical sample preparation products and LC-MS/MS workflows for mass spectrometry-based applications. This role serves as a subject matter expert in clinical sample preparation, LC-MS/MS method development, and applied workflow development, while remaining flexible to support broader new product development projects across magnetic bead-based sample preparation, extraction, enrichment, cleanup, and other analytical technologies as business needs evolve.

This position reports to the Senior R&D Manager, New Product Development and is part of the Research and Development Department located in Torrance, California and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Develop and commercialize clinical sample preparation consumables and LC-MS/MS workflows for clinical research, toxicology, forensic, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and broader applied-market needs.
• Identify and understand clinical sample preparation, LC-MS/MS workflow, and industrial separation challenges, and translate them into practical technical solutions and R&D opportunities.
• Design, optimize, and troubleshoot sample preparation methods and workflows across diverse analytes, biological matrices, and applications, with emphasis on analyte recovery, matrix-effect reduction, reproducibility, and LC-MS/MS compatibility.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan and execute projects, transfer technology, resolve technical issues, and deliver new products on time.
• Review scientific literature, conduct experiments, evaluate workflow performance, communicate results, prepare technical and customer-facing materials, publish findings, and support patent filings.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Master’s degree in analytical chemistry, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, or a related scientific field. A PhD is preferred.
• 3+ years Hands-on experience developing sample preparation, extraction, enrichment, cleanup, or quantitative workflows for biological, clinical, or other complex matrices.
• Strong hands-on experience with LC-MS/MS, mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, or related analytical instrumentation, including method development, optimization, quantitative analysis, data interpretation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and interpreting experiments that assess method-performance attributes such as recovery, selectivity, sensitivity, reproducibility, matrix effects, carryover, and robustness.
• Ability to manage multiple complex R&D projects and communicate scientific results clearly through reports, presentations, publications, application notes, conference materials, or customer-facing content.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to occasionally lift, move, or carry laboratory materials or equipment up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to work safely in laboratory environments involving chemicals, biological materials, hazardous waste, analytical instruments, and required personal protective equipment.
• Ability to travel occasionally or work necessary overtime based on project, customer, conference, or business needs.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• 3 years of experience working in or closely supporting a clinical laboratory, including clinical sample preparation and LC-MS/MS workflows for biological matrices. Hands-on experience with mass spectrometry analysis in clinical, toxicology, or related diagnostic applications.
• Experience developing magnetic bead products or automation-ready sample preparation workflows across multiple formats, analyte classes, biological matrices, and application areas.
• An established scientific network and customer-facing experience translating clinical laboratory, clinical mass spectrometry, toxicology, or related diagnostic needs into product development opportunities.
  • A strong record of scientific publication and communication through peer-reviewed papers, conference presentations or posters, technical reports, application notes, or related content.

Phenomenex, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The salary range for this role is $111,500 - $135,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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