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Scientist, Vaccine Discovery

BioSpace · San Francisco, CA · 4 wk ago
ResearchFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes "About The Team", "The Opportunity", "Key Responsibilities", "Basic Qualifications", "Preferred Qualifications", "Skills & Competencies", "Additional Information". Also there is mention of compensation and benefits in Additional Information. We need to map to allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections when posting has real specific content. We should not repeat job title as heading. We need to preserve all substantive info. We need to decide mapping: - About the role: could be the introductory paragraph about Lilly and the team? The posting has "About The Team" and "The Opportunity". Could combine into About the role. Use

About the role

then paragraphs. - Responsibilities: from "Key Responsibilities". Use

Responsibilities

then
  • each bullet. - Requirements: could combine Basic Qualifications and maybe Preferred Qualifications? But we have separate sections for Qualifications and Skills. The instructions: Use headings for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need Requirements (maybe basic qualifications), Qualifications (maybe preferred?), Skills (skills & competencies). Benefits, Pay, Schedule if present. We have Additional Information includes location, schedule (occasional evening/weekend work may be required) and benefits description. Also compensation: "Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus...". That's vague but mentions compensation and bonus. It says "The anticipated wage for this position is" incomplete? Actually text: "The anticipated wage for this position is Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance)." It seems missing a number. This is placeholder? It says "Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible...". There's no specific wage figure. According to rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The posting does state compensation depends on factors and mentions bonus eligibility. That's still somewhat vague but it's actual statement. It does not give a number, but says "Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location." That's typical but not filler? It's not "commensurate with experience" exactly but similar. Might be considered filler. Safer to omit Pay section because no specific number. Similarly Benefits: they list benefits comprehensively. That's substantive. So we can include Benefits section. Schedule: they mention "Occasional evening and/or weekend work may be required to support preclinical study timelines." That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (Basic Qualifications), Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications), Skills (Skills & Competencies), Benefits, Schedule. We must not include Pay. Now we need to extract content. About the role: combine introductory paragraphs about Lilly mission and team description and opportunity. Let's capture: "At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us." Then maybe also include "About The Team Lilly’s Infectious Disease research organization is advancing a pipeline of next-generation vaccine candidates. Our South San Francisco-based research team supports this pipeline end-to-end - from initial antigen design and expression through preclinical immune response profiling - generating the data that drives candidate selection and program advancement." and "The Opportunity We are seeking a highly motivated, exceptionally organized Scientist to join our team. This is hands-on bench role for someone who is eager to build deep expertise in mammalian cell culture and immunoassay techniques while directly supporting vaccine candidate discovery. Reporting to the Director of Biochemistry and Bioanalytics, this team member will be responsible for screening vaccine candidate expression in vitro and executing immunoassays to profile in vivo responses to vaccine candidates in preclinical immunizations. The role also includes an active part in organizing sample and reagent inventories, coordinating study schedules, and facilitating shipping and receiving with external partners." We can combine these into About the role. Now Responsibilities: list each bullet from Key Responsibilities. Let's extract bullet points: - Express and screen candidate vaccine antigens transiently transfected in mammalian cell culture systems (e.g., Expi293F) in standard and medium-throughput (e.g., 96-well plate) formats. - Analyze antigen expression by multiple methods, including Western blot/dot blot and flow cytometry. - Execute immunoassays (e.g., ELISA, Luminex) to assess preclinical immune responses to vaccine candidates. - Contribute to smooth lab operations by organizing and tracking reagents/samples, coordinating inventory, and ensuring accessibility of materials to the broader team. - Proactively identify challenges and bottlenecks and, with support, develop and implement solutions. - Meticulously document work in an electronic laboratory notebook. - Assist in authoring and reviewing SOPs, study protocols, reports, and other scientific and quality documents. - Analyze, interpret, and present experimental data in team meetings, delivering reproducible, decision-driving datasets that enable candidate selection and program advancement. - Perform all work in full compliance with Lilly Research Policies and complete required training within specified timeframes. Now Requirements (Basic Qualifications): - BS or equivalent in biochemistry, immunology, cell biology, or a related field, with hands-on "research" laboratory experience. - Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. - Vaccine Company will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1. Note: The second bullet about authorization is a requirement. The third bullet about no sponsorship is also a requirement. Now Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications): - Hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture. - Exposure to immunoassays, such as ELISA or Western blot/dot blot. - Hands-on experience with transient transfection techniques. - Direct experience executing ELISA or Western blot/dot blot assays in a lab setting. - Experience with high-throughput immunoassays, such as multiplexed Luminex. - Familiarity with flow cytometry. - Basic experience with recombinant DNA techniques (e.g., E. coli work and plasmid preparation/scale-up). - 2+ years of experience in an industry laboratory setting. Now Skills & Competencies: - Strong ability to multi-task and willingness to work effectively in a highly collaborative and diverse environment as a team player. - Able to maintain extremely clear written records in the form of laboratory notebooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs). - Enthusiasm for taking initiative to propose and execute solutions for laboratory, sample, and reagent organization. - Strong written and oral communication skills. - Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Now Benefits: from Additional Information paragraph: "In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)." Also mention: "Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance)." This is compensation/bonus but we decided not to include Pay. We could still include a Benefits section that includes the bonus? But bonus is compensation. Might be better to include Benefits only. The rule: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Benefits are stated. So we include Benefits. Schedule: from Additional Information: "This position is located onsite, full-time, in South San Francisco, CA. Occasional evening and/or weekend work may be required to support preclinical study timelines." Thus schedule: full-time onsite, occasional evening/weekend work may be required. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no markdown fences. We'll produce:

    About the role

    ... paragraphs ...

    Responsibilities

    • ...
    • ...

    Requirements

    • ...
    • ...

    Qualifications

    • ...
    • ...

    Skills

    • ...
    • ...

    Benefits

    ... benefits paragraph ...

    Schedule

    ... schedule paragraph ...

    Make sure not to include any extra headings like About The Team etc. Now ensure we preserve all substantive info. Also we need to include location? The location is in Schedule section maybe. Could also be in About the role? But we placed location in Schedule. That's fine. Check for any boilerplate: EEO, accommodation request, ERGs, etc. Must remove. We removed those. Now verify we didn't miss any substantive info: The initial repeated paragraph about Lilly mission appears twice; we included once. The "About The Team" and "The Opportunity" content we included in About the role. The "Key Responsibilities" we included. The "Basic Qualifications" we included as Requirements. The "Preferred Qualifications" we included as Qualifications. The "Skills & Competencies" we included as Skills. The "Additional Information" we split into Benefits and Schedule. We omitted the compensation paragraph (since it's vague). Also omitted the accommodation request, EEO, ERGs, etc. Check if any other substantive info: The line "Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities..." is EEO boilerplate, remove. The line about accommodation request form, remove. The line about Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer, remove. The ERGs list, remove. The line about Lilly reserves the right to amend..., that's boilerplate legal, remove. Now ensure we didn't include any filler like "Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus". That's compensation but we omitted Pay section. If we omitted Pay, we should not mention bonus anywhere else. It's okay to omit that sentence entirely because it's part of compensation. The rule says do not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state compensation depends on factors and mentions bonus eligibility. That is compensation info. But we decided not to include Pay because it's vague. However the rule says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state them (compensation depends on factors, bonus eligibility). So we could include a Pay section with that info. But the rule also says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The posting does state compensation depends on factors and mentions bonus eligibility. That's

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