Discovery Field Application Scientist, Proteomics

Thermo Fisher Scientific • San Jose, CA

20h • Onsite

About The Position

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. This opening is for a highly qualified and self-motivated individual to support our LC-MS instrumentation as a Field Application Scientist, with a strong focus on our latest generation Orbitrap technology. As a member of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Discovery West Region team, the candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary matrix team that includes regional sales representatives, marketing and service professionals, product development scientists, and engineers. Primary responsibilities will be to support the commercial field sales team by providing support for the newest Orbitrap technology, focusing mainly on the proteomics mass spectrometry market. The support will mainly be at customer sites (within North America) and focus on rapidly jump-starting customers for future success.

Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience with a master’s degree is required or 2+ years of related experience with a PhD is preferred.
• 3+ years of hands-on LCMS experience.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative proteomics LCMS workflows (e.g. TMT, DDA, DIA) and associated sample preparation techniques.
• This position requires extensive contact with customers and therefore outstanding verbal and written communication skills are required.
• A proven track record to work independently and a strong work ethic is critical.
• Ability to accommodate 75% travel.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre- and post-sales technical and application assistance in response to customer enquiries (both internal and external), including education, training, on-site visits, and remote/virtual support.
• Build new customer advocates from newly completed sales.
• Prepare and present technical seminars to existing and potential customers, either as part of the sales process or at organized events.
• Deepen and broaden Thermo Fisher Scientific’s customer relationships with key scientific and educational leaders.
• Assist in developing insightful content; examples include company hosted websites, videos, seminars, applications reports, eLearning material, etc.

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level