Senior Scientist- Food Microbiology

If you would like an opportunity to be part of a dynamic positive team at the ground level, keep reading. We are looking for a passionate person who excels in Customer Service to join our Customer Success team. We service customers in many verticals across many tech stacks. We are unique in our business model and execution and are looking to make additions to our team. If innovation and personal job satisfaction are attributes you find appealing, we invite you to come explore the possibilities and see what it would mean for you to wear our colors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide a high degree of service and willingness to solve problems with our partners/customers with a calming yet eager to help approach.
• Gather information and feedback on partner/customer needs and be proactive in finding new ways to elevate their experience.
• Give excellent product feedback and technical support.
• Represent Infuse with a high level of professionalism and an upbeat attitude.

Minimum Skills and Experience:

• BA/BS degree preferred, but not required.
• Experience in Customer Service, Technical Support, or Quality Assurance.
• Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills.
• Flexibility and patience.
• Experience with Salesforce or other industry accepted CRMs.
• Passionate about problem-solving and tech.
• Excited about joining a dedicated, talented and passionate team.

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our fast-paced, growing team. As Software Engineer you’ll be part of a team responsible for creating new products or applications and for enhancing the user experience and performance of our existing products.

You should talk to us if:

• you have 2+ years of experience as a full stack Software Engineer;
• you’re proficient in Javascript, having worked with Angular Node;
• you’ve have been part of a team of engineers that built products from concept to launch;
• you’re fully capable of developing software features on your own;
• you have experience on backend software and with REST APIs, particularly in Ruby on Rails;
• you’re familiar with deploying code to services such as AWS, Heroku, and Parse;
• you’re comfortable working in an agile development environment;
• you understand the compromises of simplifying engineering when it’s just time to ship code;

We’ll really love you if:

• you have experience programming in other languages, such as Objective C and Python;
• you’ve implemented analytics in a web or mobile app using Mixpanel or Amplitude;
• you’ve used Logentries or other logging services to monitor the state of an app;
• you’re familiar with good UI design;
• you’re engaged in the local developer community; and
• you contribute to open-source projects.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our fast-paced, growing team. As Senior Engineer, you’ll lead junior and mid-level engineers on projects, working directly with our product managers, the head of product, and the CTO.

You should talk to us if:

• you have 4+ years of experience as a full stack or backend software developer;
• you’re fluent in Javascript, having worked with Angular and Node;
• you’re an expert on backend software and architecture, particularly in Ruby on Rails;
• you have worked with continuous integration and delivery services (e.g., Codeship, Jenkins);
• you’ve deployed code to services such as AWS, Heroku, and Parse;
• you’ve led a team of developers before to build a product from concept to launch;
• your project tasks and estimates are clear and accurate, making project managers jump with joy;
• you’re comfortable working in an agile development environment;
• you’ve got an uncompromising eye for details but know when it’s just time to ship code;
• you’re familiar with writing and executing unit and system test plans;
• you can make technical decisions regarding complex project architectures; and
• you know how to properly manage git repos for complex projects with multiple developers.

We’ll really love you if:

• you have experience programming in other languages, such as Objective C and Python;
• you’ve implemented analytics in a web or mobile app using Mixpanel or Amplitude;
• you’ve used Logentries or other logging services to monitor the state of an app;
• you display patience when working with junior developers that need mentorship;
• you’re familiar with good UI design;
• you’re engaged in the local developer community; and
• you contribute to open-source projects.

We help companies build great products. When Paypal needed their mobile checkout flow updated from a legacy C++ codebase to modern technologies like Node and Python, we took on the challenge. From a custom POS to a FinTech mobile app to the Internet of Things—we work in a variety of verticals instead of on just one product. Our team is made up of proactive, self-sufficient, supportive, and motivated individuals. We all contribute to our strategy and direction. We’re looking for a product manager to join our fast-paced, growing team in the heart of San Francisco.

About the role:

Product managers are key to success; ensuring products are built according to client needs, meet our quality standards, and succeed on the market. As product manager, you’ll work directly with our project managers, a designer, the head of product, the CTO, and the CSO, managing the entire product life cycle from the idea stage to launch.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prospecting products with new clients.
• Gathering and prioritizing client needs.
• Writing the product specification based on client needs.
• Creating initial task lists in a sprint tracker.
• Creating verification test plans.
• Deploying finished products and updates to the client.
• Monitoring product analytics after deployment.
• Continually driving product vision and identifying market opportunities.

Minimum Skills and Experience:

• You have 2+ years of experience managing products.
• You have a Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in a STEM field.
• You’ve written complete product specifications, including new features and collaboration with designers.
• You have experience creating UI wireframes and user workflows using tools like Sketch, Balsamiq, and Omnigraffle.
• You’ve conducted a competitor analysis when creating a new product or entering a new market segment.
• You’re familiar with A/B testing and how to optimize website funnel conversions.
• You have a technical background with a familiarity of software development and understand what’s technically feasible given set resources.
• You’re familiar with how code is deployed and mobile apps are submitted to app stores.
• You’ve used analytics tools, like Google analytics, Mixpanel, and Amplitude.
• You have an ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing a product vision to clients and team members.

We are looking for a senior software engineer to lead the ongoing effort to design, build and refine the bullet-proof brain of our electronic license plate.
The WorkUse Android OS as the foundation of an embedded system that monitors and controls the plate and enrolls it in a distributed system of connected vehicles. The system must monitor and analyze a plethora of sensors, manage a critical display, communicate sensor and health data back to the platform and act reliably, securely and efficiently in all circumstances.If you love building secure, reliable, bullet-proof, embedded, remotely serviceable systems and want to see them roaming the highways, we’d love to meet you.Requirements: Strong team player who thrives on creative challenges and leads by example Strong software engineering discipline At home with contemporary tools/practices including automated testing, continuous integration and agile planning Demonstrated experience building elegant, maintainable, high-quality systems Demonstrated experience building reliable, efficient, fault-tolerant, embedded systems At home with Android, Java and C++ with ability to dive into Android OS drivers and internals Strong understanding of security fundamentals BSCS or BSEE or equivalent

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• BS/MS in a Computer Science or other related engineering field
• 5+ years of professional engineering experience
• Proficient in Javascript, HTML, CSS
• Strong understanding of MVC architecture
• 1+ years experience with Client Side Frameworks such as Ember or Angular
• Good sense of design and comfortable giving design feedback to product team.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Mentoring and assisting junior members of the engineering staff to improve quality of designs
• Coordinating a small team of engineers to complete a project
• Quick escalation of issues to ensure timely resolutions to blocking issues
• Providing feedback to the product team with engineering limitations and optimizations
• Fixing bugs and writing unit tests
• Estimating scopes for new features

AREAS OF FOCUS

• Complex javascript single page apps
• Leading small groups of engineers to complete features from start to finish.
• Working with design team to deliver great user experience

UX DESIGNER

LOCATION:

Long Island City, NY

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are a vertically integrated e-commerce destination for design driven, fast fashion. We bring the trend from the runways and pop culture to our customer, continually delivering newness and style inspiration.

Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, this New York City based position lead the charge in envisioning how people experience all of the products and articulate that vision through easily understandable, accessible and empowering interfaces and interactions. This role works with primary data from customer service interactions, surveys, and analytics data to understand how to improve the user experience across all digital touch points (advertising, website, blog, email, social, etc.) and conceptualizes ideas into features, creating wireframes and prototypes to demonstrate the user flows.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the user experience and its accompanying digital properties
• Develop a strong understanding for our users, product, business objectives and company mission while creating compelling design solutions demonstrating the power and value of rich web experiences
• Explore and test new customer interactions for our new dynamic and personalized experience
• Partner with Product Engineering and Marketing to conceptualize, design and prototype standout experience, highly useable applications, including UI design patterns and frameworks for next generation features
• Educate internal teams on best practice around information architecture, interaction and visual designs, usability, and supporting technologies
• Lead design activities for new product ideas and existing product optimizations
• Translate qualitative and quantitative user research data into actionable solutions
• Advocate for consistent, clear and actionable user experiences
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure designs can be adopted and extended across product suites
• Leverage modern web technologies to define innovative user interfaces and interaction models that result in improved user productivity and operational efficiency, yielding increases across selling and marketing metrics
• Develop an understanding of the end users of the website through secondary and primary research (user interviews, site metrics) and have the capability of generating user personas and user scenarios
• Prepare low fidelity prototypes of sites / features (ranging from paper and pencil components to wireframes and interactive prototypes) for internal review and brain storming

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS INCLUDE:

• 4+ years of UX design experience
• Ability to write extensive UX specification documents outlining user interactions
• Strong design portfolio covering web examples and associated UX flows
• Experience or interest in user research and usability studies
• Ability to articulate ideas clearly, patiently and succinctly – verbally, written and visually
• Ability to multitask and deliver on a high volume of projects in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working in small teams and in a highly autonomous environment
• Must love dogs! Dog Friendly office

Infrastructure Engineer for SaaS COMPANY:
Los Angeles, CA
Benefits Offered
Vision, Medical, Life, DentalEmployment Type
Full-TimeWe’re immediately looking for:Infrastructure EngineerOur Engineering team provides engineering, product, and analytics services to the organization. We is seeking a Sr. Infrastructure Engineer for our Engineering team to help build the tools and processes to scale our use of data.If you enjoy designing and automating modern infrastructure in AWS then this role may be for you. If you love solving interesting problems, working closely with other creative engineers and having a serious impact on the company you work for, then this role is ideal for you.Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Design, build, and maintain all the processes and components necessary to run our applications effectively on AWS and beyond Work closely with other developers to help/ensure that they make correct and efficient use of infrastructural components, like container clusters, logging and deployment systems, etc. Ensure reliable operation of applications, including feedback to engineers about potential operational problems and how to solve them Ensure necessary monitoring and alerting Create archival, backup and recovery processesRequirements: Networking & DNS Docker (in development and production) Security, internally and at our boundaries Infrastructure as code A desire to take ownership of infrastructure and operations quality Confident self-starter with professional demeanor and strong interpersonal skills Ability to work proactively and independently Excellent capacity to learn quickly, think on the fly and self teach as required Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication skills Effective working in fast-paced, small company Goal oriented with strong willingness to learn and constantly improve Honesty, friendly attitude, and good sense of humor.Desired: Familiarity with several application hosting platforms, self-managed and PaaS. Experience with EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, Route53, Autoscaling, CloudWatchExperience: 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, using open source systems and AWSAbout Bridg:
Ourcustomer lifecycle management software helps retail and restaurant chains encourage customers to visit more and spend more, so they can predictably grow sales across their stores. We help marketing and finance teams analyze all their transaction data and understand every customer’s value, then take automated and personalized actions to change customer behavior – like come back more frequently and spend more money.Our headquarters is located in West LA / Santa Monica, and we offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and a high-energy environment with lots of room for personal and professional growth. COMPANY:

Java Data Engineer for SaaS COMPANY:
Los Angeles, CA
Benefits Offered
Vision, Medical, Life, DentalEmployment Type
Full-TimeOur Engineering team provides engineering, product, and analytics service to the organization. We are seeking a Sr. Data Engineer for our Engineering team to help build the tools and processes to scale our use of data.If you enjoy getting your hands dirty with design and implementation of data products, taking ownership of data quality and processes, and are driven by solving interesting problems with a keen eye on details, then this role is ideal for you.Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Improve the speed and the accuracy of the Bridg data pipeline Instrumentation and monitoring of inputs and outputs Build test coverage for the app Improve the human process by building support tools Support and improve node(.js) based clients to fetch source data from multipleheterogeneous systems Help manage in­-house and off­shore engineers on data management projectsRequirements: A desire to take ownership of data and process quality Confident self­starter with professional demeanor and strong interpersonal skills Willingness to do disruptive changes for the right reasons Ability to work proactively and independently Excellent capacity to learn quickly, think on the fly and self teach as required Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical, problem solving, and communicationskills Goal oriented with strong willingness to learn and constantly improve Create and monitor tests to ensure data pipeline integrity Document existing and new processesEducation and Experience: 5+ years of data engineering experience, using open source tools Experience with stream processing technologies such as Beam, Spark Strong programming experience with at least one of: Java, node.js Familiarity with: Java, node.js, clojure Experience with production deployment and support in an cloud ecosystem Experience developing ETL with multiple external data sourcesAbout :
Our customer lifecycle management software helps retail and restaurant chains encourage customers to visit more and spend more, so they can predictably grow sales across their stores. We help marketing and finance teams analyze all their transaction data and understand every customer’s value, then take automated and personalized actions to change customer behavior – like come back more frequently and spend more money.Our headquarters is located in West LA / Santa Monica, and we offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and a high-energy environment with lots of room for personal and professional growth. COMPANY:

COMPANY: Los Angeles, CA
Benefits Offered
Vision, Medical, Life, DentalEmployment Type
Full-TimeSr. Full Stack Developer:We are seeking a highly talented, creative, and passionate senior full stack developer who loves working in an agile environment and wants to work with a very collaborative team on problems with a great potential to reach large audiences.We are looking for someone who likes to take ownership and who has the initiative and desire to identify and solve problems.Required Skills: BS/BA or MS in computer science or equivalent programming ability with at least 5 years of relevant experience Have demonstrated experience in several web frameworks, languages, and programming paradigms: (Django, Rspec, Cucumber, Angular) Experience implementing RESTful APIs Master the latest technologies and spearhead new technology development Favor many small refactors over one large rewrite, pragmatism over correctness, data over opinions Embrace healthy disagreements; care about getting the correct solution for the team, more than just being right Excellent communication and collaboration skills Highly motivated, curious, capable and a lifetime learnerAdditional Skills Desired: Java Node Bash SQL AWS services, especially DynamoDB, S3, EC2 Clojure experience, a plus!Required experience: BS/BA or MS in computer science : 3+ years experienceAbout :
Our customer lifecycle management software helps retail and restaurant chains encourage customers to visit more and spend more, so they can predictably grow sales across their stores. We help marketing and finance teams analyze all their transaction data and understand every customer’s value, then take automated and personalized actions to change customer behavior – like come back more frequently and spend more money.Our headquarters is located in West LA / Santa Monica, and we offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and a high-energy environment with lots of room for personal and professional growth. COMPANY:

Information Technology OpportunityApplicants should be team players with a broad background in network and security technologies, experienced in enterprise operations, and have excellent troubleshooting skills.Responsibilities shall include, but are not limited to: deploying, supporting and troubleshooting the network infrastructure; documenting the IT infrastructure, policies and procedures; and performing general user support. Applicants are expected also to participate in after-hours work and an on-call rotation.Required Skills: Minimum 2 years of experience deploying and supporting scalable routed and switched network. Hands-on experience with enterprise-class routers, switches, firewalls including Cisco and non-Cisco equipment. Good understanding of network and routing protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, OSPF and BGP). Excellent troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities, including packet-level traffic analysis. Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills. Bachelor’s degree required.Preferred Skills: Experience with systems administration in an Linux and Windows enterprise environment. Experience deploying and supporting open source and proprietary infrastructure services (BIND, FreeRadius, OpenLDAP, DHCP, Kerberos). Experience implementing, operating and supporting open source tools for network and security monitoring and management on UNIX/Linux platforms (e.g. mrtg, syslog-ng, xymon, snort/suricata/Bro, flowscan/SiLK). Knowledge of scripting (perl, tcl, bash, ruby) to automate tasks.Location: East Setauket, NYPosition Type: Full TimeSalary: Commensurate with Experience

SR. ACCOUNTANT

LOCATION:

Columbus, OH

POSITION SUMMARY:

Reporting to the VP of Finance, this position will support our financial operations and reporting. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years’ experience in public accounting and/or a large company. The Sr. Accountant is responsible for moderate to advanced accounting activities relating to the maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger and the resultant managerial reports and financial statements.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Applies working knowledge of accounting principles and practices, financial close processes and controls and financial statement preparation to daily work
• Applies knowledge and judgement of accounting practices in the preparation of financial statements
• Complete monthly close process in a timely fashion, including journal entries, accruals, cash receipts, account reconciliations, etc.
• Collectively perform timely bank reconciliations, booking transactions and filing necessary receipts and back-up documentation
• Book and record bank deposits, work with credit card transactions
• Support and participate in quarter and year-end analysis, certification, and reporting activities
• Manage the accounts payable process
• Help ensure appropriate internal controls are in place and working as defined
• Help identify improvement opportunities and support company growth initiatives
• Interact with business partners and vendors as needed

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS INCLUDE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3-5 years of experience in a fast-paced accounting team; retail a plus
• CPA and/or MBA a plus
• Strong knowledge of MS Excel, including pivot tables and v-lookups, a must
• Desire to seek out and implement process improvements to drive team’s efficiency
• Ability to multitask and deliver on a high volume of projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable interacting with clients and vendors
• Upbeat personality with a real thirst for learning

Job Description
The world is exploding with cloud services! Crucial data is now spread out all over the web. Companies need to bring this data together to run their businesses. Up until now this has been an incredibly difficult task requiring lots of complicated programming resulting in brittle and unmaintainable code. We connect the web in minutes not months, with a beautiful, easy-to-use experience built on top of a scalable platform using some of the most sophisticated technology on the Web. If you are passionate about cloud technology, motivated to change the status-quo, and ready for the fast-paced ride of a rapid growth technology company, we would love to talk.We work with channel partners and SAAS companies as a key sales strategy. This individual will work together with the VP Partnerships to support our strategy to nurture, develop and execute partner relationships in the SAAS community in the Bay Area.This role will be responsible for developing relationships with SAAS companies in the California market with focus on Silicon Valley. The role will focus on providing technical leadership in the Bay Area recruiting strategy, nurturing and growing SAAS partnerships leading into joint sales and GTM activities as well as establishing relationships and engaging with VP, Product Managers, CIOs and technical leaders in appropriate partners. The ideal candidate will also provide leadership in identifying scenarios where we can differentiate ourself and provide key business value in targeted SAAS companies.Responsibilities:

Support Bay Area SAAS recruiting strategy with target of 4-6 new Partners in first six months and manage current partner relationships
Lead the effort in understanding key value propositions with select ISV/SAAS companies from an integration and workflow perspective
Build Joint GTM and partnership sales strategies. Engage with Partner product, CSM and services team
Lead key value add/differentiator per Partner to leverage in GTM.
Support Marketplace engagements and presence with key SAAS partners
Ensure strong customer satisfaction resulting in 90+% renewals of business per Partner
Compete effectively versus key iPAAS competitors
Help build scorecard of partner relationships and framework for measuring success.Required Skills/ Experience:

Track record of technical sales and or channel leadership in SAAS companies and 7+ years of technical sales experience with ISV/SAAS companies and preferably channel/partner experience
Deep technical experience with SAAS market and the cloud including JSON and API’s.
Strong communication skills and customer engagement and presentation/demo skills
Good team player and collaborator
Experience in selling to LOB and IT.
Ability to work and collaborate remotelySkillsChannel Management, Technical Sales, Channel DevelopmentCompensation$100K – $160K
0.05% – 0.05%

Job Description
What You’ll Own:- Crafting the UI/UX of the product.
– Defining all aspects of product development: from the packaging to the software and gameplay.
– Help define and create all customer-facing assets from the website, to the branding, packaging and in game assets.You:- Want to make a difference with your work.
– Want to work with the best and brightest.
– Want to create things that change the world.
– Are extremely detail oriented.
– Want to be responsible for product development.
– You understand what products kids love.What We Look For:- Bachelor’s degree in UI/UX, HCI, Graphic Design or a related field.
– At least 2 years of experience in a product-focused design role.
– Familiarity with usability metrics, relevant HCI theory, and UX best practices.
– Have experience managing a small team.
– You love to lead brainstorm sessions, and you’ve taken ideas from concepts to products: from sketches, to prototypes and pixel-perfect mocks ready for development.
– Can balance business priorities with tech constraints while always advocating for the user experience.
– You live and breathe InDesign, Photoshop, Sketch, or Illustrator.
– You thrive in a cross-functional team environment.
– Experience with education or education technologyBonus Points:- Comfort with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
– You’ve been a founder or been in an early stage startup before, especially in education / education technology.What You’ll Enjoy:- Being part of an awesome team that keeps playful inventing at the heart of all we do.
РA tricked-out office in the heart of San Francisco and fully stocked kitchen + catered lunch.SkillsUser Experience Design, CSS, Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping, Visual Design, Consumer Behavior, HMTL, UI/UX Design, Typography, Usability Testing, MockupsCompensation$70K ̢ $120K
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Director, Retention & Loyalty Marketing
Santa Monica, CA
POSITION OVERVIEW:
We’re looking for an agile, creative, and intellectually curious Director of Retention & Loyalty Marketing that will make a BIG impact on a fast growing business. You’re a data-driven entrepreneur that has a deep understanding of consumer psychology and how to build long-term relationships with our customers. You’ll lead the effort to get new customers to complete their first booking, then to repeat. The ideal candidate has a combination of deep marketing experience, creative skills, strategic planning and analytics, brand, communications expertise, and strong team leadership. You’ll work closely with the executive team and have an immediate impact on our product roadmap.
Key responsibilities include:Strategic planning: Develop integrated marketing strategies that drives first-time bookings, repeats, and customer lifetime value. Own the vision for how we use key user engagement levers (including email, push/SMS, referrals, promotions, and direct mail) to drive growth from first time purchasers and our most loyal VIPs alike.CRM: Lead all efforts to increase customer loyalty and engagement. Dive into customer data and define customer segments that you’ll use to power personalized CRM campaigns. Rapidly test and iterate.Analytics: Define and track our KPIs for user engagement. Own moving those metrics up and to the right.Management and leadership: Hire and lead a talented team of growth marketers to execute on our strategy.
REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:
EXPERIENCE:5+ years of growth marketing experience, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment or a larger company with a strong entrepreneurial cultureStrategy consulting experience is a plusExperience with e-commerce or a sharing economy-based model is a plusA bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Business, Marketing, or related disciplines
SKILLS/REQUIREMENTS:Demonstrated success in designing, executing, and optimizing marketing strategiesProven track record of making data-driven marketing decisions using analytics, surveys, and A/B testingSolid understanding of product marketing, product positioning, and brand strategyProficient in conducting detailed data analyses and using metrics to drive business resultsExcellent creativity and sense of visual designFamiliarity with SQL and relational databases is a plusExperience using CRM technology is a plus (e.g. ESPs, mobile push notification providers, on-site and in-app personalization tools)Senior presence, able to clearly and consistently work side-by-side with a broad range of functionsProven success taking an aggressive approach to marketing, with a willingness to push the envelope and try new things. Not afraid to be creative, test, and think outside of what you’ve done in the past, or what is industry standard
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:You value empathy, intellectual curiosity, persistence, hustle, judgment, passion, and creativityYou thrive in a fast-paced and constantly changing start-up environmentYou’re amazing under pressure and you don’t mind wearing a few different hatsYou are extremely detail oriented and can effectively manage operations team workflowYou are a strong verbal and written communicator and presenterYou are analytical, resourceful and a creative problem solverYou are a team player who is willing to do what it takes to support your co-workers
ABOUT US:
We are privately owned and has raised over $47 million from investors, including Benchmark Capital, Foundation Capital, First Round Capital and OMERS Ventures.
Team and Office… Large and bright pet-friendly office in the heart of Santa Monica, blocks from the beach. 90+ employees across Customer Care, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and Finance. Key investors include Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley (Uber, Zillow) and Foundation Capital’s Charles Moldow (Lending Club, Adroll). Founder and CEO is Aaron Hirschhorn, UCLA MBA .
WHY US:This is a full-time, permanent position with a highly competitive salary, and generous medical benefitsNEW, gorgeous office located blocks from the beach in sunny Santa Monica.Bring your well behaved dog to work with youFree snacks, free drinks and catered lunch at least twice a week!

DESCRIPTION:

We are seeking a talented and driven Senior Scientist to join our dynamic interdisciplinary start-up. The successful candidate will be involved in experimental design, performing R&D, and development of new molecular assays for molecular detection of food borne pathogens.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Develop methods for enrichment of food borne pathogens, RNA/DNA extraction and detecting of food borne pathogens from food samples.
• Familiar with traditional microbiological and culturing methods.
• Take a leadership role in projects and guide technical areas independently. Make decisions involving designing, performing, troubleshooting, analyzing and reporting results for development and verification and validation studies.
• Identify, evaluate, and plan experimental details leading to new robust RNA/DNA based assays.
• Design, implement, analyze and present experiments to demonstrate feasibility of new methods and efficiently move products through pipeline up to and including transfer to manufacturing and scale up.
• Optimize assay conditions to achieve commercial levels of stability, robustness, and performance.
• Lead and perform risk analyses and creation of test plans, procedures and reports.
• Be both a strong individual contributor as well as a collaborative team member.
• Conduct clear and concise communication with colleagues (cross-functional) and supervisors through oral updates, written reports and technical meetings.
• Be organized with ability to document procedures and results
• Communicate effectively and to work independently and collaboratively is essential.

REQUIREMENTS:

• PhD in microbiology, Food Microbiology, genomics or related field
• 3+ years experience in commercial product development or industrial setting
• Strong background in food microbiology, biochemistry and a solid understanding of DNA/RNA based assay development and conventional microbiology required.
• Experience with illumine next-generation sequencing and library preparation is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to plan experiments, analyze data sets, interprets results, trouble-shoot experiments, prepare reports, and present results.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, detail-oriented, organized individual with a strong desire to innovate/develop new products. Desire to be part of a fast-paced dynamic research and development environment.
• Good written and verbal communication skills