Eli Lilly and Company
Assay Lead
Montreal (in-person) · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- This is a lab-based, full-time, on-site role in Montreal.
- Your primary responsibilities will be to:
- Prioritize the experiment queue across the group: decide what gets run, what gets killed, and in what order.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of new lateral flow immunoassays for additional hormones, from concept through to commercial release.
- Own the performance specs (limit of detection, sensitivity, precision, stability) and design and run the analytical validation studies that demonstrate them.
- Own reagent formulation and stability, including shelf life.
- Troubleshoot assay challenges that surface during transfer, scale-up, and production, alongside our manufacturing team, who own the process itself.
- Eli is looking for an Assay Lead to own the science behind the Hormometer®. You will report directly to the CTO and lead our assay group while staying hands-on at the bench yourself.
- Eli is looking for an Assay Lead to own the science behind the Hormometer®.
- You lead by doing, not by delegating.
- You'll be part of the core team developing and commercializing the first product that monitors hormonal data daily and over a lifetime.
- You'll be in an environment where people drive their own work, think creatively about open-ended problems, and solve them proactively.
Requirements
- You have shipped a lateral flow assay to market.
- You have roughly 5-8 years of assay development experience.
- We care far more about what you have shipped than about the number.
- You have dealt with reagent stability and shelf life, and with lot-to-lot variability that showed up in manufacturing rather than in development.
- You have worked in IVD, at-home testing, or point-of-care diagnostics.
- (Advantage) You have worked under ISO 13485 or with FDA requirements.
- (Advantage) You have hormone-specific assay experience.
Nice to have
- You have solved detection at very low concentrations in a crude, complex biological matrix.
- Saliva experience is a strong plus.
Benefits
- You'll work with a group of talented and mission-driven people eager to improve lifelong health at scale.
- You'll get health insurance (medical, dental, vision, and more) to ensure you and your family stay physically and mentally at your best.
- We look forward to learning about you!
Company info
- Eli Health is making continuous hormone monitoring possible so users can support their daily and long-term health. No more waiting days to track key biomarkers-get results you can use within minutes. Eli's flagship product, Hormometer™, is the first instant hormone monitoring platform to deliver results from saliva to mobile app-anytime, anywhere.
- Developed over six years of R&D, over 2,000 product iterations, and backed by a dozen patent-pending innovations, Eli's award-winning platform turns hormones into measurable signals you can track and improve. Just as the thermometer and glucometer have transformed health for millions, Eli's platform is poised to be the next major evolution in tracking changes in stress, endurance, sleep, and more.
- Eli Health is making continuous hormone monitoring possible so users can support their daily and long-term health.
- No more waiting days to track key biomarkers-get results you can use within minutes.
- Eli's flagship product, Hormometer™, is the first instant hormone monitoring platform to deliver results from saliva to mobile app-anytime, anywhere.
- Developed over six years of R&D, over 2,000 product iterations, and backed by a dozen patent-pending innovations, Eli's award-winning platform turns hormones into measurable signals you can track and improve.
- Just as the thermometer and glucometer have transformed health for millions, Eli's platform is poised to be the next major evolution in tracking changes in stress, endurance, sleep, and more.
- We are looking for someone who has shipped an assay before and stayed to fix it when it broke in the real world.
- You'll be part of a small (<35 people), high-performing, diverse team where everything you do has tangible impact and shapes the company's trajectory.
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