Principal Scientist Jobs in California

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• Managing Chemist
• Managing Scientist
• Principal Chemist
• Chief Chemist

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Required or preferred licenses and certifications for Principal Scientist positions.

The following top skills are often required or desired to land a Principal Scientist position

• Assay Development
• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Biology
• Biotechnology
• Cell Biology
• Cell Culture
• Chemical Characterization
• Chemical Formulation
• Chromatography
• Collaboration
• Communication Skills
• Computational Chemistry
• Data Analysis
• Design
• Design of Experiments
• Development
• Drug Discovery
• Engineering
• Environmental Chemistry
• Evaluation
• Experimental Design
• Flow Cytometry
• Food Science
• Good Laboratory Practice
• High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
• Immunology
• Implementation
• Leadership
• Mammalian Cell Culture
• Management
• Mass Spectrometry
• Materials Management
• Medicinal Chemistry
• Mentoring
• Method Development
• Method Validation
• Modeling
• Molecular Biology
• Nanoparticles
• Next-Generation Sequencing
• Oncology
• Optimization
• Organic Chemistry
• Organization
• Pharmaceutical Sales
• Planning
• Presentation
• Problem Solving
• Process Development
• Product Development
• Protein Characterization
• Protein Expression
• Purification
• Regulations
• Regulatory Compliance
• Research and Development
• Research Skills
• Scheduling
• Scientific Research
• Software
• Staff Supervision
• Synthesis
• Toxicology
• Training and Development
• Troubleshooting
• Validation
• Verbal Communication

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