Our Competitive Edge

Protein Forest recognizes that employees are associates and partners in the company's success, helping to fulfill our corporate vision and objectives. Realizing that the interests of the company and its people go hand in hand, we are committed to attract the best talent available within the life sciences industry.

Our competitive edge lies in the quality of the team we are assembling. Our goal is to continually develop technologies and product offerings that will ultimately play a critical role advancing proteomics and impact the quality of life worldwide. Responsibility and authority within Protein Forest is delegated to all our employees, each of whom is encouraged to make decisions and take action to realize their own potential in the process of fulfilling our corporate objectives.

In addition to an exceptional environment to cultivate and expand your professional talents, Protein Forest is committed to providing a well balanced, competitive total compensation package for employees and their families. This package includes:

• Competitive cash compensation
• Stock options
• Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Health insurance
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Dental insurance
• Short term/long term disability and life insurance
• Dependent care, Medical and Dental Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401K plan
• Three weeks vacation
• 11 paid company holidays per year

Applicants are welcome to forward a resume to resumes@proteinforest.com or fax it to (617) 926-4794 clearly marked Attention: Human Resources.

We are happy to announce 5 new positions.

• Sales Manager
• Sales Representative
• Manufacturing Associate
• C++ Programmer
• Product Development Scientist/Engineer

Reports to:
V.P. Sales

Scope
Protein Forest, Inc. seeks a motivated individual who will build an outbound sales organization including hiring perso™ product line.

Responsibilities

• Working with the Product Manager and the Marketing Manager, develops and implements sales and marketing plans that enable the company to reach sales and profitability goals for its instruments, consumables and software products.
• Manage all aspects of sales / customer support for new product launch
• Recruit, train and manage outbound sales / customer service representatives
• Develop a sales process that integrates marketing activities, web based sales support and home office sales
• Perform field sales and product demonstrations
• Working with VP sales, builds a North American Field sales organization

• Proven sales experience meeting or exceeding sales and profitability goals
• B.S. degree in a life science related field
• Strong understanding of new product missionary marketing and competitive product selling
• > 3 years new product sales and sales management experience

Reports to:
Sales Manager

Scope
Perform all aspects of outbound sales process including customer service, order placement, product support, product demonstrations and applications.

Responsibilities

• Performs direct sales, product support and marketing.
• Provides follow up on lead referrals and will identify new prospects
• Demonstrates product line utility and competitive advantages within a mass spec proteomics work flow
• On occasion, sales representative will field demo the dPC™ Fractionator and MSRAT software
• Will coordinate company activities to close sales
• Manage product shows at key accounts or trade shows
• Local and national account responsibility

• > 2 years experience in life sciences sales
• Excellent sales communication skills and personal motivation to succeed
• Able to learn proteomic methods quickly in order to communicate Protein Forest integrated work flows to customers effectively
• Able to thrive in start up atmosphere where individuals have many responsibilities
• B.S. degree or higher in a life science related field

Reports to:
Manufacturing Supervisor

Scope
Assists in the manufacture of products for the digital ProteomeChip™ (dPC™) product lines and electrophoresis consumables.

Responsibilities

• Dispense acrylamido buffer solutions into chip arrays using an automated dispensing machine
• Assist in the manufacture of acrylamido buffer solutions
• Cast second dimension gel products
• Package products into final packaging for inventory
• Weigh dry chemicals for assembly of buffer solutions
• Follow SOP's and assist in manufacture of PFI products
• Maintain lab safety & cleanliness
• Provide backup to supervisor and other technicians
• Perform Other Duties as assigned

Requirements

• 2-yr Associate or Technical Degree or a Bachelors degree in a scientific discipline is preferred
• 1-2 years previous lab work/consumable manufacturing desirable, but not required
• Able to follow written procedures precisely
• Familiarity with computer applications such as Word for documents and Excel for spreadsheet generation is desirable, but not necessary
• Familiar with electro/mechanical operations
• Basic mathematical skills are necessary. The individual should be able to calculate fractions and be familiar with calculating general laboratory mathematics involved in preparing solutions and mixtures for specific reagents
• Ability to understand problem descriptions from supervisor and be able to collect data following verbal/written instruction, if necessary

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Reports to:
Chief IT and Software Development Officer

Responsibilities:
Work with the Chief IT / Software Development Officer in maintaining, improving and developing our MSRAT™ bioinformatics software.  Develop new products and deployment methods as well as new algorithms and data visualization methods.  Support software development and IT activities.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum three years of software development work experience in an organization focused on software product development.
• Minimum three years development experience for Windows using Microsoft Visual C++ and MFC.
• Experience in developing GUI graphical (user interface) or algorithm development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Math, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biology, Chemistry or other scientific related field.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience or knowledge in proteomics, mass spec and/or protein databases.
• Advanced degree in Biology, Math, Statistics, or other scientific related field.
• Familiarity with Drupal, PHP, software testing, software deployment, Amazon S3 and other AWS, image processing techniques.
• Experience in hardware/software interfaces using serial and USB communication.

Required Personal Skills:

• Self motivated and independent in problem solving.
• Good communicator and ability to work in a development team.

Reports to:
Principal Engineer

Position Summary:
Support development of electrophoresis-based protein fractionation products.  Candidates must be able to work effectively in the laboratory designing experiments, developing physical properties data, and validating fractionation procedures.  A background in polymer chemistry or surface chemistry is required.  Additionally, candidates must have an aptitude for fabricating and testing product prototypes.

Responsibilities

• Develop manufacturing processes for modifying plastic surfaces to enhance the adhesion of a polymer gels.
• Design and construct prototypes to test product improvement concepts.
• Interface with external engineering design and manufacturing partners.

Requirements:

• MS plus 5-10 years, or PhD plus 2-3 years laboratory experience in chemical engineering, electrical engineering, analytical chemistry, physics or related field.
• Demonstrated independent research experience with biological systems.
• Prior industrial experience with protein purification, electrophoresis, MEMS and/or laboratory instrument development is a plus.
• Computer skills required -  
  • dynamic modeling of complex physical and chemical systems,
  • CAD (2D or 3D),
  • Programming (C++, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, Perl, etc.),
  • MicroSoft Office.

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