Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry, chemistry, biology, or a related scientific field.
- 0 - 2 years of relevant laboratory, sample management, or scientific operations experience.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational, analytical, and multitasking skills.
- Ability to perform routine responsibilities independently while maintaining high standards for quality and documentation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Willingness to handle potent cytotoxic compounds while following established safety protocols.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Hands-on laboratory experience outside of undergraduate coursework.
- Experience handling proteins, antibodies, reagents, or small-molecule compounds.
- Experience working in a research or biopharmaceutical laboratory environment.
- Familiarity with Freezerworks or another sample and inventory-management platform.
- Experience with automated laboratory equipment and established laboratory protocols.
- Exposure to protein liquid chromatography or spectroscopy instrumentation.
- Experience using electronic laboratory notebooks or laboratory information management systems.
- Previous experience supporting sample preparation, inventory management, or laboratory logistics.
Job Description
Insight Global is seeking an Associate Scientist, Sample Management & Logistics to support the Protein Bioanalytical Sciences team at a leading biopharmaceutical organization in Bothell, Washington for a contract going through 12/31/27.
This individual will play an important operational role in preparing, organizing, tracking, and shipping research-grade materials used in the preclinical evaluation of antibody-based cancer therapies. Materials may include antibody-drug conjugates, proteins, toxic linker payloads, small compounds, reagents, and bioanalytical study samples.
The Associate Scientist will support both domestic and international shipments, maintain laboratory inventories, prepare samples for internal requests, and help improve sample-management and logistics processes. This position requires strong attention to detail, careful documentation, and the ability to collaborate effectively with scientists and business partners across multiple research teams.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain, organize, and routinely audit laboratory sample and reagent inventories.
- Fulfill sample requests by locating, preparing, aliquoting, and checking materials.
- Perform basic sample assessments using techniques such as UV-Vis spectroscopy.
- Accurately record materials and prepare shipping and receiving documentation.
- Coordinate domestic and international shipments of research-grade materials.
- Manage large reagent inventories using Freezerworks or a comparable inventory-management system.
- Support the handling of proteins, antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, small compounds, toxic linker payloads, and bioanalytical study samples.
- Identify opportunities to improve laboratory efficiency, sample management, and logistics processes.
- Maintain complete, accurate, and timely documentation.
- Collaborate regularly with scientists, logistics partners, and other team members.
- Follow all laboratory safety procedures when handling potent or cytotoxic compounds.