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Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Scientist will join a team engineering yeast and bacteria with novel capabilities for use across Cargill’s business units.  The Senior Scientist will play a key role in developing and improving metabolic pathways for the production of food, feed and Bio-Industrial chemicals.  This position is based in Minneapolis, MN Research and Development Center (Plymouth). 

Key Accountabilities

• Use metabolic engineering approaches to design, build and test microbial strains to achieve project goals.
• Generation of new hypotheses and metabolic pathways by mining scientific literature and in-house data and models.
• Collaborating with researchers in strain engineering, analytical chemistry, bioinformatics, fermentation, and process development to achieve project milestones.
• Training, mentoring and supervising junior team members
• Authoring reports and presentations, strong communication skills
• Stay abreast of new technology being used in the field
• Monitor materials to determine that they are on target impact including toxic or non toxic properties, binding and efficacy.
• Manage associated software applications, modeling techniques and information systems to collect, store and analyze scientific data.
• Oversee research studies that assist in improving agricultural processes, or other purposes.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, genetics, biochemistry, biochemical engineering, microbiology or related field.
• Strong core competency in metabolic engineering and small-scale fermentation processes.
• Ability to design and analyze experiments generating diverse data streams (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, genomics) to guide metabolic pathway development
• Working knowledge of genetics, gene regulation, synthetic biology, and biochemistry
• Good troubleshooting skills to deal with technical problems
• Demonstrated experience generating high quality data, and managing to a timeline

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of related industry work experience: microbiological techniques and metabolic pathway development
• Possess comprehensive knowledge of molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, biophysics
• Understanding of one or more of the following scientific domains: molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, biophysics

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