NOTE: This is a two-year Postdoctoral appointment with the possibility of extension to a maximum of three years.

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct research in the fields of synthetic biology and protein design. You will work collaboratively to evaluate cutting-edge protein design tools using an integrated computational and high-throughput experimental pipeline combined with high diversity variant libraries. This position is in the Synthetic Biology group in the Biosciences and Biotechnology Division.

In this role you will

• Work as part of a team to conduct fundamental research in microbial synthetic biology and protein design.
• Use modern protein design tools to generate new, sequence-diverse proteins with desired functions.
• Use state of the art gene synthesis approaches to produce gene libraries.
• Develop, troubleshoot, and validate high throughput approaches to assay the function of computationally-designed protein variants.
• Read and evaluate relevant scientific literature.
• Work with other scientists to write proposals and expand our program into new areas aligned with your expertise and interests.
• Write reports to funding agencies and participate in scientific conferences.
• Pursue independent (but complementary) research interests and interact with a broad spectrum of scientists internally and externally to the Laboratory.
• Publish research results in peer-reviewed scientific or technical journals and present results at external conferences, seminars, and/or technical meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.