**Job Description**

**The UW Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer 3 (Pro Staff Temp) to join their team.**

**About This Opportunity**

The Research Scientist/Engineer 3 in the Division of Infectious Disease Diagnostics within the University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology will be a member of our Research and Development Laboratory at the UW Central Lab in Renton. In this role, the RS/E 3 will drive the innovation and development of next-generation sequencing (NGS), quantitative PCR (qPCR), and digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) assays for cutting-edge infectious disease diagnostics and biomarker studies. Our dynamic R&D group has a proven track record of clinical translation and global impact. We have developed multiple CLIA-validated molecular assays for high-consequence pathogens—including SARS-CoV-2, mpox, measles, and H5 influenza—and have sequenced hundreds of...