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Technical Support Scientist

Bio-Techne

Newark, CAFull-time$64–104K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$64–104K/yr
Location
Newark, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Technical Support Scientist provides application assistance, product training, and troubleshooting for RNAscope product lines through online chat, phone, email, and on-site visits. The role serves as a primary customer contact for technical issues and research-use scientific consultation, tracks recurring issues in Salesforce, collaborates with Sales, Marketing, and R&D, and contributes to the team’s knowledge database. The posting seeks laboratory experience in molecular biology, biochemistry, or a similar discipline.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Molecular BiologyBiochemistryExperimental DesignCell and Molecular TechniquesPathologyHistologyTissue AnalysisIHCISHImagingBiological Assay TroubleshootingTechnical Customer SupportApplication SupportPresentation SkillsTeachingInterpersonal SkillsProfessionalismTeamwork

Qualifications

PhD+0, MS+3 or BS+5 Yrs Lab ExperiencePhD or MS5 Years Lab ExperienceNo Visa Sponsorship RequiredAbility to Travel 10%Ability to Sit for Long Periods

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

In-person

Newark, CA

Full time

JR102251

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Pay Range:

$63,500.00 - $104,450.00

Job Purpose

The Technical Support Scientist role involves providing application assistance, training, and troubleshooting support for RNAscope product lines through various channels. They serve as the main point of contact for customers, offering technical guidance and scientific advice for research purposes. The position requires maintaining high standards of customer service by promptly addressing and resolving technical issues. Additionally, the role includes logging and tracking recurring support issues, collaborating with different departments for issue resolution, and contributing to the enhancement of the technical support team's knowledge database.

Responsibilities

  • Provide application assistance, product training and troubleshooting for ACD product lines via online chat, phone, email and on-site visits.

  • Act as primary contact for customers regarding technical issues, as well as provide scientific consultation for research use only.

  • Ensure excellence in customer service and guaranteed response times by actively monitoring support emails, phone calls, and ensuring all issues are resolved in a timely and comprehensive manner.

  • Log, track, and identify frequently occurring, high impact support issues and communicate through appropriate channels for resolution using the Salesforce CRM (Customer Relationship Management) database.

  • Act as liaison with Sales, Marketing and R&D groups to provide feedback on product performance.

  • Contribute to the ongoing development of the technical support team's knowledge database.

Qualifications

Education:

  • PhD with 0+ years, MS with 3+ years or BS with 5+ years of laboratory experience focused on molecular biology, biochemistry, or similar discipline. PhD or MS preferred.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 5 years laboratory experience with experimental design, cell and molecular techniques.

  • Preference for experience in pathology, histology and tissue analysis, including preparation of tissues and reagents for IHC, ISH, and Imaging.

  • Must be adept at diagnosing, troubleshooting, and solving technical problems with a variety of biological assays.

  • Technical customer support or application support experience a plus.

Skills:

  • Highly self-directed, conscientious, articulate, and possesses excellent presentation and teaching skills.

  • Committed to total customer satisfaction with outstanding interpersonal skills and professionalism.

  • A team player

Working Conditions:

  • Ability to travel ~10%

  • Office environment

  • Occasional Lab work ~5%

Physical Requirements:

  • Ability to sit for long periods while using a computer and interacting with customers through various communication channels.

Why Join Bio-Techne:

We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.

We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k plans, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.

We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs, and more.

We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.

We offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.

We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.

Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.

This position requires work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant work status). If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in an interview, or take part in any other stage of the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] for assistance.

Bio-Techne empowers researchers in Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics by providing high-quality reagents, instruments, custom manufacturing, and testing services. Our family of brands creates a unique portfolio of products and services.

Science is our passion; it drives us to collaborate, develop, and manufacture award-winning tools that help researchers achieve reproducible and consistent results.

How this job compares

Set against the 4,191 open Technical Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$64–104K/yr
  • California median$103–140K/yr184 salary ranges
  • US median$77–116K/yr1,341 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $84K, is 33% below the California median midpoint ($125K) — in the lowest quarter of Technical Support salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 410 open Technical Support jobs in California and 4,191 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Technical Support postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (2,673 postings).
Education
364 of the 4,191 open Technical Support jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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