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Nkarta is seeking a highly motivated, collaborative, detail-oriented Principal Scientist to join our Translational Medicine team. The successful candidate will have expertise in immunology, immune cell therapy and/or autoimmune diseases. This individual will work independently and collaboratively within Translational Medicine and cross functionally to advance and support and execute on biomarker assay development, MOA investigations and data analysis from clinical samples to support translational and clinical strategies in early development.

Nkarta is seeking a highly motivated, collaborative, detail-oriented Associated Director/Head of Bioinformatics to join our Translational Medicine team. The successful candidate will have experience in leading computational biology and/or bioinformatics teams in a biotech or pharmaceutical setting. This individual will work collaboratively within Translational Medicine and cross functionally to advance, support and execute on biomarker discovery, MOA investigations and data analysis from clinical samples to support translational and clinical strategies in early development.

This position oversees the Quality Control (QC) Department, including analytical, microbiological, raw material, and analytical method qualification groups. The candidate is responsible for internal and external QC in-process, drug substance, drug product, and stability testing. The Director/Senior Director of QC will be responsible for tech transferring methods and starting up the new QC lab.

We are seeking a highly motivated and collaborative Engineer to join the Process Development/Manufacturing Science and Technology (PD-MSAT) team in developing and supporting Nkarta’s pipeline of cellular immunotherapy platform and products.  This role will primarily represent CMC in our ongoing clinical operations and drug product development. Priorities will include investigations in support of drug product formulation/filling as well as drug processing characterization activities including technology transfer of drug product processing for clinical and future commercial programs.

The Head of Biometrics leads biostatistical-related activities related to the clinical trial design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trial data for each program. In addition, this individual is accountable for overseeing/building a world class team that includes data management and statistical programming and identifying technology needs or other gaps. The Head of Biometrics partners with other functional leaders from Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Drug Safety, Regulatory Affairs, Research, and others in support of the project teams and of the organization. High-level negotiation and oversight of CROs and provides oversight of CRO/sponsor partnership.