The roleWe are hiring a Scientist to help build our wet-lab capability in synthetic phage engineering.
This is a hands-on bench role. We are looking for someone who is strong in molecular biology, excited by synthetic biology, and interested in helping engineer and test bacteriophages in a fast-moving research environment. The work will include construct design and assembly, cloning, assay execution, experimental troubleshooting, and generating the data that powers our larger technical system.
You will work closely with the lab team in Madison and in collaboration with the broader company, including computational counterparts in San Francisco. The role is highly experimental and highly collaborative. It is a good fit for someone who likes building, testing, iterating, and learning quickly from real experimental results.
What you'll do- Run core molecular biology and synthetic biology workflows related to phage engineering
- Help construct, assemble, and test engineered phage variants
- Execute host-phage assays and related experimental workflows with strong attention to data quality
- Troubleshoot failures in constructs, assays, and protocols and improve them over time
- Generate clean, useful experimental data that informs model development and research direction
- Contribute to the growth of a small lab working on a technically ambitious problem with real-world consequences
You might be a fit if- You have been doing real bench science recently and want to stay close to the work
- You like building things in the lab, not just analyzing them afterward
- You care about experimental quality and can troubleshoot effectively when things fail
- You are excited by the idea of working on engineered living therapies
- You want your work to feed directly into a larger system that combines wet-lab science and machine learning
