Cell Line Engineering Scientist

Job Description

Date: 8 Jul 2025

Location:

Bangalore, KA, IN, 560099

Custom Field 1: Discovery Services

Designation: Team Lead: Cell Line Engineering

Job Location: Bangalore

Department: Discovery Biology

About Syngene: Syngene (www.syngeneintl.com) is an innovation-led contract research, development and manufacturing organization offering integrated scientific services from early discovery to commercial supply.

At Syngene, safety is at the heart of everything we do personally and professionally. Syngene has placed safety at par with business performance with shared responsibility and accountability, including following safety guidelines, procedures, and SOPs, in letter and spirit

Mandatory expectation for all roles as per Syngene safety guidelines:

- Overall adherence to safe practices and procedures of oneself and the teams aligned
- Contributing to development of procedures, practices and systems that ensures safe operations and compliance to companys integrity & quality standards
- Driving a corporate culture that promotes environment, health, and safety (EHS) mindset and operational discipline at the workplace at all times.
- Ensuring safety of self, teams and lab/plant by adhering to safety protocols and following environment, health, and safety (EHS) requirements at all times in the workplace.
- Ensure all assigned mandatory trainings related to data integrity, health, and safety measures are completed on time by all members of the team including self.
- Compliance to Syngene s quality standards at all times.

Job Purpose

- Looking for a candidate with experience in mammalian cell culture. The candidate will be a part of the Cell Engineering team working on generating stable cell lines to be used as tools or for production purposes. He or she will be in a fast-paced work environment that offers a great opportunity to learn and grow.

Key Responsibilities

- Generation of stable cell lines and Kock out and Knock-In to be used as tools or for production purposes
- Characterization of cell lines using techniques like flow cytometry, western and ELISA blotting etc.
- Experiment design and planning, conducting experiments, analysing and communicating results with the team and the clients (Presentation and email communication)
- Documentation of data and inventory maintenance for all audit purposes. Aware of all the documentation and data integrity policies.
- Follow environment, health, and safety (EHS) requirements at all times in the workplace ensuring individual and lab/plant safety.
- Attend training on environment, health, and safety (EHS) measures imparted company

Educational Qualification

- Ph.D in Lifesciences relevant to cell line and clone development
- 1-8+ years of post-PhD experience in relevant field of Cell and Molecular biology (Industrial experience is Plus)
- CRO experience with client facing role is plus

Technical/functional Skills

- Experience with stable cell line generation is necessary
- Experience with generation of lentivirus and/or retrovirus is necessary
- Experience with genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9 or others) is a plus
- Experience with generation of reporter cell lines is a plus
- Experience with fundamental molecular biology techniques and flow cytometry
- Experience with cell banks preparation and inventory maintenance
- Excellent attention to details, diligent documentation and efficient communication skills (Verbal and Written)
- Follow environment, health, and safety (EHS) requirements at all times in the workplace ensuring individual and lab/plant safety.
- Attend training on environment, health, and safety (EHS) measures imparted company.

Behavioural Skills

- Good work ethics.
- Good interpersonal skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment. Ability to work with coworkers professionally.
- General ability to thrive in a growing infrastructure and culture and think out of box approach when troubleshooting and problem solving.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Syngene to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, ational origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable legislation or local law. In addition, Syngene will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

---