Jobs · Analyst · Washington

Research Fellow - PhD

Seattle Children's · Seattle, WA · 3 wk ago
Analyst$80k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Posting content: - Intro paragraph: description of lab, position, focus, etc. - Key Responsibilities: bullet list (Design and perform experiments..., Analyze immune-cell populations..., Evaluate antigen-specific..., Contribute to studies..., Analyze data..., Participate in maintenance...) - Required Education And Experience: Doctorate degree (PhD/DVM/MD) in specialty area from an accredited university training program. Experience using basic research techniques of specialty area. - Required Credentials N/A. - Preferred: Research experience in immunology, infectious disease, B cell biology, or a related area. Experience with flow cytometry, mammalian cell culture, or mouse models. Ability to design experiments, analyze data critically, and communicate findings clearly. PhD in immunology, microbiology, cell biology, or a related discipline. - Compensation Range $80,172 per year Salary Information ... This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided. Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants ... Benefits Information Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website. - About Us: mission statement etc. We need to produce sections: About the role (maybe intro paragraph?), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (maybe required education/experience?), Qualifications (maybe preferred?), Skills (maybe ability to design experiments etc?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we must only include sections when posting has real specific content. Let's see: - About the role: we have introductory paragraph describing the role. That's substantive. - Responsibilities: we have bullet list. - Requirements: we have "Required Education And Experience" and "Required Credentials N/A." The required credentials N/A is not substantive; but we have required education/experience. So we can include Requirements section with that content. - Qualifications: we have "Preferred" list. Could be Qualifications. - Skills: maybe we could combine with Qualifications? But we need to decide. The posting includes "Ability to design experiments, analyze data critically, and communicate findings clearly." That's a skill. Also "Experience with flow cytometry, mammalian cell culture, or mouse models." That's also skill/experience. We could put skills under Qualifications or separate Skills. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine Preferred experience and skills into Qualifications section. But we have separate headings allowed: Qualifications, Skills. We could put "Preferred" under Qualifications, and maybe Skills under Skills if we have distinct skill statements. However, to avoid many thin sections, we could have Qualifications (including preferred experience and skills) and maybe not separate Skills. But we need to follow instruction: "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It's just examples; we can choose which to include. We should include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to decide what content maps to each. Let's extract: About the role: introductory paragraph. Responsibilities: bullet list. Requirements: Doctorate degree (PhD/DVM/MD) in specialty area from an accredited university training program. Experience using basic research techniques of specialty area. Qualifications: Preferred research experience in immunology, infectious disease, B cell biology, or a related area. Experience with flow cytometry, mammalian cell culture, or mouse models. Ability to design experiments, analyze data critically, and communicate findings clearly. PhD in immunology, microbiology, cell biology, or a related discipline. Skills: maybe we could separate "Ability to design experiments, analyze data critically, and communicate findings clearly." as skill. But that's already in Qualifications. Could also include "Experience with flow cytometry, mammalian cell culture, or mouse models." as skill. But again overlapping. Better to have Qualifications cover preferred experience and skills, and not have separate Skills section to avoid thin sections. Benefits: we have description of benefit package. Pay: we have compensation range $80,172 per year, plus details about calculation, etc. Schedule: not mentioned. No schedule info. So we should not include Schedule. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. We need to ensure we don't include filler like "N/A". We'll omit Required Credentials N/A. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from each section. Let's craft HTML:

About the role

The Acharya laboratory at Seattle Children’s Research Institute (www.seattlechildrens.org/directory/mridu-acharya) is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral scientist to investigate how signaling and intracellular trafficking mechanisms within B cells shape immune responses in infection and autoimmunity. A primary focus of this position will be examining the generation, localization, and function of lung-resident germinal-center and memory B cell responses following influenza infection in mice. The candidate will also have opportunities to investigate how mouse and human B cells process and present different classes of antigens to T cells, using cell-culture and microscopy-based approaches. Together, these projects provide an opportunity to connect the cellular mechanisms operating within B cells with their effects on tissue-level immune responses. Experience in using microscopy to study intracellular localization of proteins or using biochemical approaches to study cell biology would be highly preferred. The successful candidate will work closely with the principal investigator to develop research questions, design and perform experiments, and prepare findings for publication and presentation. The laboratory provides a collaborative and supportive training environment to develop expertise in mucosal immunology, B cell biology, respiratory infection, antigen presentation, and cellular imaging.

Responsibilities

  • Design and perform experiments investigating lung-resident B cell responses following influenza infection in mice.
  • Analyze immune-cell populations from lung and lymphoid tissues using multiparameter flow cytometry.
  • Evaluate antigen-specific B-cell and antibody responses.
  • Contribute to studies of antigen processing, intracellular antigen trafficking, and B cell antigen presentation.
  • Analyze data and contribute to presentations, manuscripts, and research proposals.
  • Participate in the maintenance and experimental use of mouse colonies relevant to the research program.

Requirements

Doctorate degree (PhD/DVM/MD) in specialty area from an accredited university training program. Experience using basic research techniques of specialty area.

Qualifications

Preferred research experience in immunology, infectious disease, B cell biology, or a related area. Experience with flow cytometry, mammalian cell culture, or mouse models. Ability to design experiments, analyze data critically, and communicate findings clearly. PhD in immunology, microbiology, cell biology, or a related discipline.

Benefits

Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website www.seattlechildrens.org/careers/benefits.

Pay

Compensation Range $80,172 per year. This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided. Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants: This compensation range is specific to Seattle; positions located outside of Seattle may be compensated differently depending on various factors.

We need to ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like EEO etc. We omitted About Us etc. That's okay; we only include sections with real specific content. The About Us section is not requested as a heading; we could include as About the role? Actually About the role is separate from About Us. The posting includes an "About Us" paragraph about Seattle Children's mission. Should we include that? The instruction: "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It didn't list About Us as a possible heading. But we could include it under About the role? However, About the role already covers the position description. The About Us is more about the organization. The instruction didn't forbid including other sections not listed; but they gave examples. It says "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the expected headings. It didn't say we cannot add others, but better to stick to those. The About Us content could be considered part of About the role? Might be okay to include as a paragraph under About the role? But the About the role already has a paragraph; we could append the About Us content as another paragraph under About the role. However, the About Us is not about the role but about the organization. The instruction says "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it." It didn't forbid including organizational description. But the list of headings is just examples; we could include an "About Us" section if we want. However, they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Adding About Us would be another section; but we already have many sections. Might be okay to include it as part of About the role? I'd rather keep it as a separate section "About the organization" but not in the list. Safer to follow the examples and not add extra headings. We could incorporate the About Us content into the About the role section as additional paragraph, but that might mix role description with organization description. However, the instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information". So we need to preserve the About Us content somewhere. If we omit it, we lose substantive info. So we need to include it. We could add a section "About the organization" but not in the list; but the instruction didn't forbid other headings, just gave examples. It said "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The "e.g." implies those are examples, not an exhaustive list. So we can add other headings if needed. However, they also said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Adding another section may increase count but still okay if substantive. Thus we could add an

About the organization

with the About Us paragraph. Alternatively, we could incorporate it under About the role as a second paragraph. That would keep sections count low. Let's do that: About the role section will have two paragraphs: first describing the role, second describing the organization (About Us). That preserves all info. Thus final HTML:

About the role

First paragraph...

Second paragraph (About Us)...

Then Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. Check that we haven't included any boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. We omitted those. Check that we didn't include "Required Credentials N/A." Good. Check that we didn't include "Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants" besides we included it in Pay section; that's substantive. Check that we didn't include "Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website..." we kept that. Check that we didn't include "Hope

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