Field Applications Scientist

As a Field Application Specialist, you will be in charge of conducting the applications support for Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Automation and Liquid Handling products. You will assess customer needs around specific applications and workflows pre- and post-sales and provide solutions on how to develop, implement and automate such workflows with Beckman Coulter's product portfolio. This process includes scoping, method development, implementation, optimization, and troubleshooting of the automation and liquid handling protocols.

In this role you will actively promote the company's products and services and act as the direct contact person for our customers when it comes to scientific and application-related questions. This position reports to the Western Regional Manager, Field Applications Liquid Handling, and is part of the Customer Support, Field Applications North America team and will be working remotely to cover the U.S. Pacific Northwest Region.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide applications support across multiple scientific subject areas, including drug discovery and genomics.
• Understand the scope of customer projects and be able to build, adapt, implement, and optimize liquid handling and automation protocols to improve customer workflows.
• Provide customer training and support; maintain positive customer relations.
• Support sales targets by partnering with the commercial team to provide high-level scientific and technical expertise.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose technical problems and serve as a liaison with service and internal customer support teams as needed.

The minimum requirements of the job include:

• Educational requirements: Bachelor's degree in Life Science or related field of study with 2+ years of direct experience.
• Direct working experience with laboratory assays involving Compound Screening, Proteomics, Biologics, Molecular Biology, and/or Assay Miniaturization.
• Programming Automated Liquid Handlers.
• Protocol design, optimization, troubleshooting, workflow adaptation.
• Experience with conducting scientific or training presentations.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Must be located in the Seattle, Washington Area with an expectation of 50% travel with an overnight stay throughout the assigned geography.
• Territory includes: Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Salt Lake City, UT, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota and Vancouver, BC.
• International travel may be required.
• Must have a valid driver's license and an acceptable Motor Vehicle Record (MVR).

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Advanced programming of laboratory automation workflows
• Technical or application support within a Life Science company