Senior Scientist- Applications

About the role

The Senior Scientist - Applications will provide critical scientific leadership for Molecular Devices' growing plate reader business while supporting all product lines across the portfolio. This role fills an important gap between Sales and Field Applications by improving coordination, driving application-focused customer engagements, increasing technical depth in GxP accounts, and enabling seamless pre-sales and post-sales support.

Responsibilities

• Provide critical scientific leadership for Molecular Devices' growing plate reader business while supporting all product lines across the portfolio.
• Improve coordination, driving application-focused customer engagements, increasing technical depth in GxP accounts, and enabling seamless pre-sales and post-sales support.
• Generate high-quality validation data, application workflows, and scientific evidence that support marketing initiatives, customer-facing content, and the scientific credibility of Molecular Devices solutions.
• Translate customer challenges into scientifically relevant application workflows, validation studies, and technical resources that demonstrate how Molecular Devices solutions address real-world problems.
• Drive adoption of Molecular Devices technologies by creating customer-centric technical content, best practices, and application-focused resources that help customers achieve successful outcomes and maximize the value of their investment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in biology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, or related life science discipline, with multiple years of experience in a customer-focused role within the life science tools, biotechnology, diagnostics, or scientific instrumentation industry.
• Demonstrated expertise in microplate reader technologies and associated applications, with the ability to apply scientific knowledge to solve customer challenges and support successful technology adoption.
• Proven ability to engage, influence, and build strong relationships with both external customers and internal stakeholders, collaborating effectively across Sales, Field Applications, Marketing, Product Management, and Service organizations.
• Commercially minded with a strong understanding of customer needs, market opportunities, and the ability to translate scientific requirements into solutions that drive customer success and business growth.
• Experience designing and executing validation studies, generating high-quality scientific data, and developing application-focused content that supports product positioning, marketing initiatives, and the scientific credibility of Molecular Devices solutions.

Qualifications

• Ability to travel periodically to support scientific conferences, trade shows, customer engagements, and internal meetings.
• Ability to work in a laboratory environment, including extended periods of standing and operating laboratory equipment.
• Ability to occasionally lift, move, and carry laboratory consumables, demonstration materials, and light equipment.
• Ability to safely handle laboratory reagents and follow established laboratory safety procedures.

Skills

• Expertise in microplate reader technologies and associated applications.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to generate high-quality validation data and application evidence.
• Experience in translating customer challenges into scientifically relevant application workflows.
• Knowledge of regulatory guidelines and GxP workflows.

Benefits

Molecular Devices, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Pay

The annual salary range for this role is $116,00 - $125,00. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

Schedule

This position reports to the Director – Scientific Applications and is part of the Product Innovation and Strategy team located in San Jose, California and will be an on-site role.