Staff Scientist COE, Proteomics

Bring more to life.

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

At SCIEX, 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.

As part of SCIEX, you will help to influence life changing research and outcomes, while accelerating your potential. For more than 50 years, we have been empowering our customers to solve the most impactful analytical challenges in quantitation and characterization through ground-breaking innovation and outstanding reliability and support. You will be part of a winning team, enabled by DBS, that is passionate about helping life science experts around the world get to answers they can trust.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Staff Scientist COE, Proteomics is responsible for delivering complex, customer-facing analytical workflow demonstrations that create compelling scientific evidence and support commercial outcomes. The role develops reproducible methods, standard operating procedures, benchmarks and reference data; provides scientific leadership to global field application and demonstration teams; and translates customer evaluations and emerging science into actionable product feedback.

This position reports to the Director, Center of Excellence and is part of the Center of Excellence team located in Concord, Canada.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Execute advanced omics customer-sample demonstrations on SCIEX mass spectrometry platforms, tailoring workflows to defined customer needs and success criteria.
• Develop, validate and maintain analytical methods, SOPs, benchmark studies and reference data that deliver reproducible, decision-ready results.
• Establish demonstration-readiness standards for assigned applications, including workflow protocols, instrument/software configuration, data quality, troubleshooting paths and acceptance criteria.
• Provide scientific leadership to global field application scientists and regional demo laboratories through technical coaching, best-practice sharing and complex workflow troubleshooting.
• Design and execute external customer evaluations and scientific collaborations with thought leaders, translating findings into new demonstration capabilities, application insights and prioritized product requirements; partner with Commercial, Product Management, Market Vertical, R&D, Technical Marketing and Quality/Regulatory teams to support strategic opportunities, improve demo cycle time and strengthen competitive win rates.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in analytical chemistry, chemistry, biochemistry, life sciences or a related scientific discipline with 20+ years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree with 10+ years; or a PhD with 7+ years with proteomics experience. Metabolomics, multi omics experience highly desired.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry workflows, complex sample preparation, analytical method development, optimization and troubleshooting across diverse cell systems, tissues, biofluids, and other biological sample types.
• Demonstrated experience planning and delivering customer-facing scientific demonstrations or technical presentations using experimental data to address defined customer requirements.
• Experience authoring and maintaining controlled technical documentation, including standard operating procedures, protocols, benchmark methods, validation summaries or reference datasets.
• Experience working across geographically distributed commercial, applications, product-development and quality/regulatory stakeholders to translate scientific findings into technical recommendations or product requirements.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally to customer sites, demonstration laboratories, scientific meetings and internal events as business needs require. The expected travel percentage and any location-specific physical requirements must be confirmed in the approved requisition.

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

• External customer evaluation programs, lighthouse studies or collaborations with recognized scientific thought leaders.
• Regulated laboratory environments or collaboration with Quality and Regulatory Affairs on workflow readiness and documentation.
• Competitive benchmarking of mass spectrometry workflows and development of application evidence used in complex commercial opportunities.

The annual salary range for this role is CAD 150,000 – CAD 190,000. 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.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to access our website, and as applicable participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at 1-202-419-7762 or applyassistance@danaher.com to request accommodation.