Scientist, HIV Virology

The role

You will build the HIV lab from the ground up, including equipment, reagents, SOPs, and controls. You will serve as the in-house HIV expert and execute experiments using human immune organoids.

What you will do

• Build the HIV lab from the ground up including equipment, reagents, and SOPs
• Act as the in-house HIV expert for biology, virology, and assay design
• Stand up the assay menu including viral load, infectivity, latency reactivation, neutralization, integration, and replication kinetics
• Execute experiments with rigor and make real-time adjustments
• Co-own biosafety and run a lab that meets the BSL2+ bar

Required qualifications

• HIV virologist
• Current or recent postdoc from a top-tier HIV lab
• Fluent in BSL2+
• Deeply familiar with standard HIV assays to measure viral load, infectivity, latency, neutralization, integration, and replication kinetics
• Strong in immunology and T cell biology
• Bench-first design with hands-on craft

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with organoid or 3D culture systems
• Experience with single-cell, multi-omic, or high-content imaging readouts
• Background spanning HIV virology and broader infectious disease work
• Comfort working alongside hardware engineers and platform scientists in a hands-on R&D environment

About the company

Parallel Bio is building human-first drug discovery powered by organoids and AI. The platform uses real human biology to improve translational success rates in drug discovery.