Novozymes

Copenhagen, Denmark

Pioneer a brighter future

At Novozymes, we work in close partnership with our customers to create a better world every day. For those around us, each other and for the next generation. We use science to advance industries, and as part of our R&D team, you’ll create and develop the biological answers that will pave the way for a brighter future.

Scientist, Computational Protein Engineering, Copenhagen

Do you want to work in an environment in which creativity and challenging the status quo is valued as scientific excellence? If so, you could be our new colleague in the Protein Design department, a small and highly specialized department responsible for designing the enzymes that will become Novozymes’ next products. Working with colleagues in experimental departments, you’ll have responsibility for designing enzyme variants that are improved in our target industrial processes. Alongside an in-depth understanding of computational protein analysis and protein engineering, you also possess strong scripting skills and data analysis skills. In your daily work, you’ll use all of these talents to develop the enzymes that will become tomorrow’s biological solutions to industrial challenges.

In this position you need to:

• have a PhD in protein engineering, biophysics, protein structure determination or similar, and ideally several years of experience;
• have extensive experience with standard protein structure analysis, design and simulation tools such as Pymol, Gromacs, AutoDock, APBS, Rosetta etc.;
• have experience with scripting languages such as Python or R, and you have developed scripts/programs for performing analyses of experimental data, protein sequences and protein structures;
• be good at talking to people who are not computer experts as well as collaborating and contributing in large projects;
• be a self-starter, dedicated, take pride in your work, and have a good sense of humor.

Are you the next Zymer in our team? Consider a career with Novozymes and let’s realize your potential together.

Rethink tomorrow

Novozymes is the world leader in bioinnovation. Together with customers across a broad array of industries, we create tomorrow’s biosolutions, improving our customers’ business and the use of our planet’s resources. With over 700 products used in 130 countries, Novozymes’ bioinnovations improve industrial performance and safeguard the world’s resources by offering superior and sustainable solutions for tomorrow’s ever-changing marketplace.

Contact

For more information please contact Senior Manager Jens Erik Nielsen at jein@novozymes.com.

Application deadline: 19 Apr 2015