Scientist, Protein Expression & Purification

The role

You will build out protein expression and purification with a focus on mammalian systems. You will turn these processes into a robust, automated, high-throughput product by optimizing science hands-on and working with automation and software teams.

What you will do

• Develop, optimize, and run mammalian expression hands-on (CHO/HEK, transient and stable)
• Own purification across modalities (Protein A, IEX, SEC, and related) and protein quality
• Turn expression and purification into a productized, high-throughput, automated capability
• Partner with lab automation to scale workflows onto automated systems
• Work with the software team to track samples and process parameters
• Set the quality bar and troubleshoot failures across biology, reagents, and process

Required qualifications

• Deep, hands-on expertise in mammalian protein expression and purification (CHO/HEK, and the full path from construct to purified, characterized protein)
• Applied industry experience running expression and purification in a production or industrial setting
• Track record of making production reliable including titer optimization, scale-up, and consistent quality
• Builder who moves fast to stand up and continuously improve a production capability
• Interdisciplinary collaborator with automation engineers and software people

Nice to have

• Data fluency (scripting, tracking and analyzing process data)

About the company

Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. They are a fast growing biotech company trusted by biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and techbio companies.