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We are seeking a highly motivated and highly collaborative Research Associate/Senior Research Associate to join the Analytical Development (AD) team in implementing various assays to characterize Nkarta’s pipeline of cellular immunotherapy products, with special focus on genomic analysis.

We are seeking a highly motivated and highly collaborative Associate Scientist/Scientist to join the Analytical Development (AD) team in implementing various assays to characterize and release test Nkarta’s viral vector and CAR-NK platforms. The Associate Scientist/Scientist will work closely with the Process Development and QC groups using the analytical capability to continue support for Nkarta’s products.

This is an entry level role which will also be key in providing support to the engineering activities related to plant facilities and equipment of a new clinical GMP manufacturing for a leading cell therapy company. You will also have to opportunity of being part of the engineering team to build a manufacturing facility ground up.

This role adds to the build out and further development of our growing analytical development team with the advancement of the production and analytics capability for Nkarta’s NK products

Nkarta is seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager/Associate Director, Project Manager (Manufacturing/CMC) to join our team. They will lead the Manufacturing team in supporting our efforts in an exciting new area of cancer immunotherapy. This position is based out of South San Francisco, CA. This person will be responsible for managing a team of cell culture manufacturing specialists in a commercial pharmaceutical environment. In this role you will report to the Executive Director of Manufacturing.

We are seeking a highly motivated and collaborative process development associate to join our Viral Process Development (VPD) team to aid in supporting activities across Research and Development. The Associate will be primarily responsible for viral vector production, assay execution, and have opportunities to support other development activities as needed (process optimization studies, scale-up support, etc.).

The Head of People will be responsible for driving and executing people management strategies in support of Nkarta’s overall business and organization. This includes talent management, organizational development, performance management, training and career development, and championing an open and transparent culture of diversity, fairness and inclusion. Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, our Head of People will work closely with the broader leadership team as a strategic partner in creating and implementing a company-wide culture of success aimed at attracting, developing, motivating and retaining a talented and committed workforce. With a strong focus on translating company values into everyday practice. This will be a highly visible hands-on leadership role with the opportunity to contribute directly to Nkarta’s mission of advancing the benefits of cell therapy and its access to patients with cancer.

The ideal candidate for Nkarta’s Inventory Specialist will possess the skill and drive necessary to assist in the development and implementation of a scalable “world class” materials management strategy for the company. The candidate has demonstrated the ability to work in a team environment, managing product issuance and receipt to stock, inventory cycle counting, assisting with data entry and has a continuous improvement to support Nkarta’s clinical pipeline and continued growth.

Nkarta offers a unique opportunity for a highly-motivated Procurement Manager who will be responsible for streamlining current forms of process, systems, and operational capabilities within a fast-growing organization.

This position plays a critical role in advancing process development of Nkarta’s NK cell therapy program as we build out our PD capabilities.

We are seeking a highly motivated and highly collaborative Research Associate or Senior Research Associate to join the Binder Development team. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in all aspects of antibody discovery approaches for the generation of CAR binders for lead selection for preclinical development. A junior intern that shows promise will be considered for transition to full time.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Biometrics the Director of Clinical Data Management will be responsible for leading and managing all Clinical Data Management (CDM) activities to meet corporate timelines and objectives. The Director of CDM will be responsible for building and leading the CDM function and for setting strategies for the CDM function.

Nkarta offers a unique opportunity for a highly-motivated QA Specialist to join our growing Quality Assurance team.  This role supports the batch disposition activities for Nkarta NKX101 and NKX019 programs, including but not limited to batch records review, deviation and change control approval. The role also supports the qualification of our new manufacturing suite and technical transfer of advanced NK cell therapies. It is a key position to closely coordinate with internal and external partners in a cross-disciplinary team of immunologists, engineers, and clinicians to develop and implement best practices in cell therapy manufacturing.

We are currently offering a unique opportunity for a highly motivated process development senior scientist/process engineer to join our team with downstream development experience in viral production and analytics.

Support the daily GMP manufacturing operations of allogeneic NK cell therapies while driving facility and equipment qualifications, initiating and assessing deviations, reviewing batch records, and authoring SOPs.

Nkarta seeks a highly motivated, results oriented, and collaborative senior research associate/ associate scientist with deep knowledge and experience in immunology and various immunology models to join our growing research team to assist with NK biology characterization related functions. This individual performs research and/or development with others in the group for CAR NK projects.

The role is responsible for supporting the planning, execution, and technical support of manufacturing process scale-up and technology transfer project tasks/activities, in which ex vivo modified cell therapy drug substance and drug product operations are transferred from Process Development to Manufacturing in order to produce quality product at cGMP manufacturing scale in support of both clinical and future commercial programs

Reporting to CSO, the Head of Pre-Clinical and Translational Research is responsible for leading and managing core functions at Nkarta responsible for in vivo candidate validation, effective conduct of IND-enabling studies, and clinical correlative analyses. The successful candidate will manage a team with capabilities for the development of models and analytics that help elucidate product activity, safety, pharmacokinetics and dynamics, and mechanism of action.  This individual will collaborate closely with Nkarta’s discovery, process development, and clinical development groups to integrate translational research into the overall goals of the company.

In April 2022, Nkarta announced Phase I data demonstrating that our co-lead programs, NKX101 and NKX019, are well tolerated and highly active in heavily pre-treated patients with hematologic malignancies.   The Nkarta Cell Therapy Development team strives to continue the successful development and advancement of additional novel CAR cell therapy pipeline programs to address not only hematologic malignancies, but also bring next generation cell therapies developed with our best-in-class platform to successfully treat patients with solid tumor malignancies. We are currently offering a unique opportunity for a highly driven, curious, and focused researcher to join our team to develop and assess novel CAR candidates to drive pipeline programs. The successful candidate is a self-starter, is enthusiastic about cell therapy, and most importantly, wants to make a profound impact on cancer patients.

We are seeking a highly motivated and highly collaborative Research Associate/Senior Research Associate to join the Analytical Development (AD) team in implementing various assays to characterize Nkarta’s pipeline of cellular immunotherapy products, with special focus on genomic analysis.