Head of Platform Bioengineering & Assay Development

Required

• A principal scientist. You have led bench scientists directly, developed their scientific judgment, and held them to a standard. You can reconcile competing interpretations among people who report to you and reach a decision without suppressing healthy technical disagreement.
• A deeply experienced experimental scientist. You have spent your career developing complex biological assays and understand how difficult it is to make living systems behave reproducibly.
• A builder and process developer. You ask not only whether an experiment works, but under what conditions, how often, why it fails, how variable it is, and what must be controlled to make it reliable. You enjoy taking something that works in the hands of one expert scientist and making it executable by an organization.
• A rigorous troubleshooter. When data are ambiguous, you design experiments that distinguish competing explanations rather than relying on intuition alone.
• A systems thinker. You understand that biological performance emerges from the interaction of cells, reagents, protocols, operators, instruments, automation, software, and data systems.
• Hands-on. You are comfortable setting scientific strategy and equally comfortable going to the bench when a difficult problem requires it.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. You can bring structure to immature technologies without imposing unnecessary bureaucracy or pretending uncertainty does not exist.
• Mission driven. You are excited by the opportunity to replace animal models with scalable human biology and fundamentally change how medicines are discovered.
• Technical foundation
• You hold a Ph.D. in Immunology, Cell Biology, Biology, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, or a related discipline, with typically 10 to 15 or more years of relevant experience developing complex biological assays, models, and platforms.
• Deep immunology expertise and hands-on work with complex human in vitro models, organoids, primary immune cells, or advanced mammalian cell culture.
• Direct management of bench scientists, including setting scientific direction, running data review, and developing scientific judgment in a team.