Cryo-EM Specialist
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory · Menlo Park, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteOTHRFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. No job title heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract sections:
Position Overview: description about role. Could be "About the role". We'll include that.
Job Description: includes responsibilities list.
We need to separate responsibilities, maybe "Responsibilities". Also "Other General Research And Lab Coordination Responsibilities" could be part of responsibilities.
"To Be Successful In This Position You Will Bring" -> qualifications/requirements.
"Preferred Requirements Include" -> maybe also qualifications.
"SLAC Employee Competencies" maybe skills? Could be "Skills". Also "Work Standards Interpersonal Skills:" etc.
"Minimum Education And Experience" -> qualifications.
"Knowledge, Skills And Abilities" -> skills.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to include Benefits, Pay, Schedule only if present. Not present. So omit those sections.
We must not repeat job title.
We must output only HTML fragment.
We need to use
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. No job title heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract sections:
Position Overview: description about role. Could be "About the role". We'll include that.
Job Description: includes responsibilities list.
We need to separate responsibilities, maybe "Responsibilities". Also "Other General Research And Lab Coordination Responsibilities" could be part of responsibilities.
"To Be Successful In This Position You Will Bring" -> qualifications/requirements.
"Preferred Requirements Include" -> maybe also qualifications.
"SLAC Employee Competencies" maybe skills? Could be "Skills". Also "Work Standards Interpersonal Skills:" etc.
"Minimum Education And Experience" -> qualifications.
"Knowledge, Skills And Abilities" -> skills.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to include Benefits, Pay, Schedule only if present. Not present. So omit those sections.
We must not repeat job title.
We must output only HTML fragment.
We need to use for each section heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to include details like number of instruments, etc.
Let's craft sections:
About the role
... position overview ...
Then Responsibilities: combine "Your Specific Responsibilities Include" list and "Other General Research And Lab Coordination Responsibilities Include". We'll make a with items.
We need to ensure we don't duplicate lines.
Let's extract bullet points from "Your Specific Responsibilities Include":
- Conduct cryoEM specimen preparation.
- Operate electron microscopes for the study of cryo-specimens.
- Screen cryo-EM specimen for suitability in structural research.
- Conduct assessment prior to data collection: Perform preliminary image data quality evaluation, load samples and tune microscopes.
- Collect image data for users
- Conduct assessment of data collection: Provide evaluation on quality of data collected
- Interface with the SLAC scientific computing team for support to ensure optimal data collection, storage and data processing.
- Perform image processing.
- Assist researchers on cryoEM projects and oversee their experiments.
- Help orient and train new staff, external and internal users, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students.
- Develop and support data collection enhancements.
- Develop instruction material and contribute to research reports and publications.
- Maintain the electron microscopes and other cryo-specimen preparation apparatus; may require interfacing with vendor engineers.
- Maintain accurate electronic logs for microscope performance and usage.
Then "Other General Research And Lab Coordination Responsibilities Include":
- Perform more complex functions and activities involved in defined research projects and independently conduct a portion of the research project(s).
- Perform complex (lab and/or field) experiments for a major portion of the research project.
- Maintain detailed records of experiments and outcomes.
- Interpret and analyze results, often where few guidelines exist.
- Based on prior results, contribute to development of new research protocols and procedures or adaptation of existing protocols.
- Make recommendations on plan design and/or research direction to principal investigator.
- Participate in multidisciplinary teams across divisions.
- Perform ongoing literature review to remain current with new procedures and related research; present findings for lab work group.
- Contribute substantively to the preparation of papers for publication, especially in the results section.
- May contribute to publication of findings and present ongoing work and findings to colleagues at academic conferences.
- Perform general lab maintenance as needed; maintain lab stock, manage chemical inventory, and provide general lab support as needed.
- May assist with purchasing laboratory equipment.
- Other duties may also be assigned.
We'll combine.
Now Requirements/Qualifications: "To Be Successful In This Position You Will Bring" list:
- Bachelor's degree in structural biology, biophysics, physics, biochemistry, chemistry or bioengineering, or related scientific field and at least two years of relevant work experience, or Master’s degree in related field
- Comprehensive understanding of scientific principles.
- General understanding of the principles of transmission electron microscopy and cryoelectron microscopy.
- General computer skills and ability to quickly learn and master computer programs, databases, and scientific applications.
- Strong analytical skills and excellent judgment.
- Strong communications skills and ability to interact effectively with scientists at a varied level of experience
- Ability to work independently under deadlines with general guidance is essential, as well as ability to work productively in a team environment.
- Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to accurately complete detailed work.
Then "Preferred Requirements Include":
- Direct experience in cryoEM techniques and use in biological applications is strongly preferred.
- Master’s degree in relevant science field, and/or two years of experience thereafter in a research environment, or a Ph.D.
Then "Minimum Education And Experience":
- Bachelor's degree in related scientific field and two years of relevant work experience; or Master’s degree in a related scientific field.
Then "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities":
- Comprehensive understanding of scientific principles.
- General computer skills and ability to quickly learn and master computer programs, databases, and scientific applications.
- Strong analytical skills and excellent judgment.
- Ability to maintain detailed records of experiments and outcomes.
- Ability to work under deadlines with general guidance is essential.
- Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to accurately complete detailed work.
Also "SLAC Employee Competencies" list: Effective Decisions, Self-Development, Dependability, Initiative, Adaptability, Communication, Relationships, Work Standards Interpersonal Skills, Promote Culture of Safety, Meets applicable roles..., Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies..., Policies found in the University's Administrative Guide.
These could be considered Skills or maybe we can put under Skills.
We need to avoid duplication. Many items repeat across sections. We should preserve all substantive info but can combine similar items? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we must not omit any detail. However we can combine duplicates? That might be summarizing away detail? If we combine duplicates we might lose some nuance but not lose info if we keep the content. But safer to keep each bullet as is, even if repeated. However that could be repetitive but still preserving. The instruction says do not summarize away detail; repeating is okay. We'll keep each bullet as appears.
Thus we need sections: About the role (prose), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (list), Qualifications (list), Skills (list). Possibly also "SLAC Employee Competencies" could be under Skills.
We need to decide which heading to use for each chunk.
We have headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We can map:
- About the role: position overview paragraph.
- Responsibilities: the two responsibility blocks combined.
- Requirements: maybe "To Be Successful In This Position You Will Bring" (mandatory) plus "Minimum Education And Experience". Could be considered Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe "Preferred Requirements Include" plus "SLAC Employee Competencies"? Actually qualifications often include education/experience and preferred. But we already used Requirements for mandatory. Qualifications could be preferred and competencies.
- Skills: "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities" plus maybe other skill-like items.
We need to ensure we don't create empty sections.
Let's craft:
About the role
Do you enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of people to solve complex challenges? Does contributing to breakthrough discoveries in science and working with unique experimental instrumentation in a world-leading scientific research environment excite you? The Cryo-EM and Bioimaging Division within the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Directorate at SLAC is seeking a Cryo-EM Specialist to support state-of-the-art electron microscopy facilities involving 7 Thermo Fisher cryoEM instruments and two cryoET instruments with additional sample preparation instrumentation. The facility is staffed by a team, including this position, that is responsible for oversight, research operations and maintenance of these microscopes, as well as training and assisting scientific users. Reporting to the SLAC Manager, the CryoEM Specialist will be a member of this team supporting research activities in single particle and tomography studies.
That's the overview.
Now Responsibilities: combine both lists.
We'll output Responsibilities
- ... each item ...
We need to ensure we keep punctuation.
Now Requirements: maybe combine "To Be Successful In This Position You Will Bring" and "Minimum Education And Experience". Let's list each bullet.
We'll produce Requirements
... items ...
Now Qualifications: maybe "Preferred Requirements Include" and "SLAC Employee Competencies". We'll treat as Qualifications.
Now Skills: "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities". Also maybe some overlapping but we keep.
Let's extract each bullet exactly.
From "To Be Successful In This Position You Will Bring":
- Bachelor's degree in structural biology, biophysics, physics, biochemistry, chemistry or bioengineering, or related scientific field and at least two years of relevant work experience, or Master’s degree in related field
- Comprehensive understanding of scientific principles.
- General understanding of the principles of transmission electron microscopy and cryoelectron microscopy.
- General computer skills and ability to quickly learn and master computer programs, databases, and scientific applications.
- Strong analytical skills and excellent judgment.
- Strong communications skills and ability to interact effectively with scientists at a varied level of experience
- Ability to work independently under deadlines with general guidance is essential, as well as ability to work productively in a team environment.
- Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to accurately complete detailed work.
From "Minimum Education And Experience":
- Bachelor's degree in related scientific field and two years of relevant work experience; or Master’s degree in a related scientific field.
Note: This is similar to first bullet but slightly different phrasing. We'll keep both.
Now "Preferred Requirements Include":
- Direct experience in cryoEM techniques and use in biological applications is strongly preferred.
- Master’s degree in relevant science field, and/or two years of experience thereafter in a research environment, or a Ph.D.
Now "SLAC Employee Competencies": list each competency as bullet? The text: "Effective Decisions: Uses job knowledge and solid judgment to make quality decisions in a timely manner. Self-Development: Pursues a variety of venues and opportunities to continue learning and developing. Dependability: Can be counted on to deliver results with a sense of personal responsibility for expected outcomes. Initiative: Pursues work and interactions proactively with optimism, positive energy, and motivation to move things forward. Adaptability: Flexes as needed when change occurs, maintains an open outlook while adjusting and accommodating changes. Communication: Ensures effective information flow to various audiences and creates and delivers clear, appropriate written, spoken, presented messages Relationships: Builds relationships to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive climate to achieve. Work Standards Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations. Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for environment, safety and security; communicates related concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned. Meets the applicable roles and responsibilities as described in the ESH Manual, Chapter 1—General Policy and Responsibilities: http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/esh/eshmanual/pdfs/ESHch01.pdf Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu Policies found in the University's Administrative Guide,http://adminguide.stanford.edu."
We need to split into bullet items. Each competency separated by period? We'll treat each sentence before a capital letter? Safer to split by the pattern: "Effective Decisions:", "Self-Development:", etc. We'll create bullet for each.
Thus bullets:
- Effective Decisions: Uses job knowledge and solid judgment to make quality decisions in a timely
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to include details like number of instruments, etc. Let's craft sections:
About the role
... position overview ...
Then Responsibilities: combine "Your Specific Responsibilities Include" list and "Other General Research And Lab Coordination Responsibilities Include". We'll make a- with items.
We need to ensure we don't duplicate lines.
Let's extract bullet points from "Your Specific Responsibilities Include":
- Conduct cryoEM specimen preparation.
- Operate electron microscopes for the study of cryo-specimens.
- Screen cryo-EM specimen for suitability in structural research.
- Conduct assessment prior to data collection: Perform preliminary image data quality evaluation, load samples and tune microscopes.
- Collect image data for users
- Conduct assessment of data collection: Provide evaluation on quality of data collected
- Interface with the SLAC scientific computing team for support to ensure optimal data collection, storage and data processing.
- Perform image processing.
- Assist researchers on cryoEM projects and oversee their experiments.
- Help orient and train new staff, external and internal users, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students.
- Develop and support data collection enhancements.
- Develop instruction material and contribute to research reports and publications.
- Maintain the electron microscopes and other cryo-specimen preparation apparatus; may require interfacing with vendor engineers.
- Maintain accurate electronic logs for microscope performance and usage.
Then "Other General Research And Lab Coordination Responsibilities Include":
- Perform more complex functions and activities involved in defined research projects and independently conduct a portion of the research project(s).
- Perform complex (lab and/or field) experiments for a major portion of the research project.
- Maintain detailed records of experiments and outcomes.
- Interpret and analyze results, often where few guidelines exist.
- Based on prior results, contribute to development of new research protocols and procedures or adaptation of existing protocols.
- Make recommendations on plan design and/or research direction to principal investigator.
- Participate in multidisciplinary teams across divisions.
- Perform ongoing literature review to remain current with new procedures and related research; present findings for lab work group.
- Contribute substantively to the preparation of papers for publication, especially in the results section.
- May contribute to publication of findings and present ongoing work and findings to colleagues at academic conferences.
- Perform general lab maintenance as needed; maintain lab stock, manage chemical inventory, and provide general lab support as needed.
- May assist with purchasing laboratory equipment.
- Other duties may also be assigned.
We'll combine.
Now Requirements/Qualifications: "To Be Successful In This Position You Will Bring" list:
- Bachelor's degree in structural biology, biophysics, physics, biochemistry, chemistry or bioengineering, or related scientific field and at least two years of relevant work experience, or Master’s degree in related field
- Comprehensive understanding of scientific principles.
- General understanding of the principles of transmission electron microscopy and cryoelectron microscopy.
- General computer skills and ability to quickly learn and master computer programs, databases, and scientific applications.
- Strong analytical skills and excellent judgment.
- Strong communications skills and ability to interact effectively with scientists at a varied level of experience
- Ability to work independently under deadlines with general guidance is essential, as well as ability to work productively in a team environment.
- Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to accurately complete detailed work.
Then "Preferred Requirements Include":
- Direct experience in cryoEM techniques and use in biological applications is strongly preferred.
- Master’s degree in relevant science field, and/or two years of experience thereafter in a research environment, or a Ph.D.
Then "Minimum Education And Experience":
- Bachelor's degree in related scientific field and two years of relevant work experience; or Master’s degree in a related scientific field.
Then "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities":
- Comprehensive understanding of scientific principles.
- General computer skills and ability to quickly learn and master computer programs, databases, and scientific applications.
- Strong analytical skills and excellent judgment.
- Ability to maintain detailed records of experiments and outcomes.
- Ability to work under deadlines with general guidance is essential.
- Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to accurately complete detailed work.
Also "SLAC Employee Competencies" list: Effective Decisions, Self-Development, Dependability, Initiative, Adaptability, Communication, Relationships, Work Standards Interpersonal Skills, Promote Culture of Safety, Meets applicable roles..., Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies..., Policies found in the University's Administrative Guide.
These could be considered Skills or maybe we can put under Skills.
We need to avoid duplication. Many items repeat across sections. We should preserve all substantive info but can combine similar items? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we must not omit any detail. However we can combine duplicates? That might be summarizing away detail? If we combine duplicates we might lose some nuance but not lose info if we keep the content. But safer to keep each bullet as is, even if repeated. However that could be repetitive but still preserving. The instruction says do not summarize away detail; repeating is okay. We'll keep each bullet as appears.
Thus we need sections: About the role (prose), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (list), Qualifications (list), Skills (list). Possibly also "SLAC Employee Competencies" could be under Skills.
We need to decide which heading to use for each chunk.
We have headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We can map:
- About the role: position overview paragraph.
- Responsibilities: the two responsibility blocks combined.
- Requirements: maybe "To Be Successful In This Position You Will Bring" (mandatory) plus "Minimum Education And Experience". Could be considered Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe "Preferred Requirements Include" plus "SLAC Employee Competencies"? Actually qualifications often include education/experience and preferred. But we already used Requirements for mandatory. Qualifications could be preferred and competencies.
- Skills: "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities" plus maybe other skill-like items.
We need to ensure we don't create empty sections.
Let's craft:
- ... each item ...
About the role
Do you enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of people to solve complex challenges? Does contributing to breakthrough discoveries in science and working with unique experimental instrumentation in a world-leading scientific research environment excite you? The Cryo-EM and Bioimaging Division within the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Directorate at SLAC is seeking a Cryo-EM Specialist to support state-of-the-art electron microscopy facilities involving 7 Thermo Fisher cryoEM instruments and two cryoET instruments with additional sample preparation instrumentation. The facility is staffed by a team, including this position, that is responsible for oversight, research operations and maintenance of these microscopes, as well as training and assisting scientific users. Reporting to the SLAC Manager, the CryoEM Specialist will be a member of this team supporting research activities in single particle and tomography studies.
That's the overview. Now Responsibilities: combine both lists. We'll outputResponsibilities
Requirements
- ... items ...