Staff Scientist, Genomics

Join to apply for the Staff Scientist, Genomics role at Cooper Surgical
.

Cooper Surgical is a leading fertility and women’s healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of Cooper Companies, we’re driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life’s beautiful moments.

• Technical and scientific oversight of the laboratory including selection of appropriate test methodology.
• Verification of test procedure analytical performance.
• Establish and maintain the quality control program including acceptance criteria throughout the entire process from raw material receipt to reporting of test results.
• Resolve technical problems and ensure that remedial actions are taken whenever test systems deviate from established specifications.
• Experience in a regulated clinical laboratory environment meeting CLIA/CAP/NYS DOH/ISO 15189/ISO 13485 standards.
• Perform hands‑on, wet lab experiments to evaluate existing genetic testing assays, leading to assay improvements. Use scientific methods and best practices for experimental protocol design, execution, data analysis, and interpretation. Liaise with R&D team to ensure successful new product introduction by employing rigorous validation protocols and methods.
• Analyze and interpret genetic testing output from data analysis pipelines to assess data quality, support the interpretation of sequencing results, and identify trends for optimization. Aid in troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis, and devise solutions and approaches for solving technical problems to improve genetic testing performance in an inclusive and collaborative fashion.
• Drive technology transfer and implementation of new products or assay improvements. Will include authoring or contributing to development of SOPs, work instructions, etc.

Travel: This role is site based, though domestic/regional travel may be required (