Field Application Scientist

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Position Summary:                 

As a Field Applications Scientist, you are involved in providing customer support regarding Illumina equipment and tools. You are required to deal with customers for problem solving, pre-sales activities, and customer training. You are responsible for supporting Korea customers using Illumina's sequencing and microarray systems

Position Responsibilities:

• Coordinate new installations, including facility inspections, and assay validation
• Provide comprehensive technical training and support
• Provide ongoing support and troubleshooting for customers issues related to user’s technical skills, biochemistry/assay design, experimental design, software and instruments.
• Carry out projects that include demonstrations, feasibility studies, and new product evaluation
• Help to maintain and increase product usage, and supporting sales efforts through technical presentations and demonstrations
• Provide pre-sales and post-sales technical and scientific presentation
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with customers
• Create and maintain support information in the company enterprise database
• Acting as a key contributor of customer feedback to marketing and product development teams.
• Build effective relationships with new and existing clients for field application purpose, monitor the customers feedback on product usage and maintenance
• Develop and improve key company processes that support our mission of building a world-class customer support organization.

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Position Requirements:

• At least 2 years of experiences in diagnostics environment
• Outstanding problem solving and interpersonal skills 
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication and training skills 
• Demonstrated ability to work within a cooperative team environment
• Strong people skills, cross-organizational teamwork
• Clear vision of and commitment to providing outstanding customer service 
• Excellent communication skills in Korean and English
• Must be willing to travel

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

Preferred Experience/Education/Skills:

• PhD in Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology or Bioinformatics required, OR M.S.
• Past experience in clinical lab is a plus
• Prior field experience supporting customers using sequencing or array technologies preferred 
• Demonstrated experience with next generation or high throughput sequencing sample prep technologies and protocols preferred 
• Demonstrated understanding of commonly-used sequencing data analysis software applications preferred
• Demonstrated bioinformatics expertise and experience with handling and analyzing next generation sequencing or array data is a huge plus

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