At Editas Medicine, we are pioneering the possible. Our mission and commitment is to translate the power and potential of the CRISPR/Cas12a and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing systems into a robust pipeline of medicines for people living with serious diseases around the world. Our goal is to discover, develop, manufacture, and commercialize transformative, durable, precision genomic medicines for a broad class of diseases.

Why Choose Editas?

At Editas Medicine, we’re a team of passionate problem solvers, harnessing the power and potential of CRISPR gene editing to transform the future of medicine. Driven by a shared purpose to serve people living with serious diseases, we succeed together through collaboration, mutual respect, and innovation. If you want to be part of a team where your voice is heard and respected, where you can operate at the forefront of gene editing, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in medicine, come join us and become and Editor!

Decoding The Role:

As a Contract Senior Development Associate, you’ll be a vital contributor to our mission and our success. Your work will directly support process and analytical development activities within our Technical Development organization. This will be a 3-6 month contract position reporting to the Associate Director of Downstream Process Development.

Characterizing Your Impact:

As the Senior Associate, you will:

• Execute experiments in recovery and purification unit operations for scale-down model verification and process characterization projects for protein products under supervision or independently
• Support representative protein generation for process development and analytical development (AD)
• Manage and submit samples for analytical testing
• Document all experimental work, supporting information, and data in an electronic lab notebook (ELN) in a timely manner
• Author work instructions, process templates and batch records
• Compile and present data and assist in authoring technical reports
• Contribute to equipment repair and maintenance
• Other responsibilities as required