Bioengineer, Molecular Biology

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. </strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward. This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation.</p><h2>About the Role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a hands-on research role in our biology and production team. You'll work on the science that underpins everything Adaptyv does: developing and optimizing protein expression systems, running molecular biology workflows, and pushing the boundaries of what we can produce and characterize at scale.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We express proteins at high volume across cell-free and cell-based systems, run DNA synthesis and assembly at high throughput, and characterize binding, stability, and function using BLI, SPR, and enzymatic assays.</p><h2>What You'll Do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Develop and optimize protein expression workflows — cell-free expression (PURE, lysate-based), E. coli, and potentially mammalian systems. Troubleshoot when proteins don't express, misfold, or aggregate.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design and execute DNA synthesis and assembly protocols: PCR, Golden Gate, Gibson. Improve yield, fidelity, and throughput.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Develop new assays or adapt existing ones for the platform — thermostability, developability, enzyme activity, or whatever the next customer need demands.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Run experiments yourself. This is not a project management role. You'll be at the bench doing molecular biology, analyzing data, and iterating on protocols.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work with the automation team to translate your methods into automated workflows. You develop the protocol that works; they make the robots run it.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Analyze experimental data, identify failure modes, and improve methods systematically. When 20% of constructs in a batch fail to express, you figure out why.</p></li></ul><h2>What We're Looking For</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>MSc / PhD in molecular biology, bioengineering, or a relevant field.</strong> Hands-on depth matters most — years at the bench doing real molecular biology counts more than the degree title.</p>