(Contract) Research Technician, Pre-clinical Pharmacology

The role

You will work alongside experienced researchers to prepare for and execute mouse studies supporting internal drug discovery programs. This role involves animal handling, data recording, and sample processing.

What you will do

• Prepare and label tubes, cages and collection supplies ahead of each study
• Set up procedure rooms for dosing days and takedowns
• Tattoo and tail-mark mice; prepare and organize study cages
• Weigh animals and record data accurately
• Maintain study records in Benchling
• Help maintain lab and vivarium inventories
• Support necropsy and tissue collection
• Process collected samples, primarily serum
• Assist with tissue weighing and lysis for downstream analysis

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience with animal handling, including the ability to confidently scruff a mouse
• Comfort working with laboratory animals in a vivarium environment
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to follow written protocols and SOPs accurately
• A proactive approach
• Genuine enthusiasm for learning new techniques, and a collaborative, team-first attitude

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with animal handling, including the ability to confidently scruff a mouse
• Experience with SC, IV or PO dosing
• Submental blood collection
• Necropsy and tissue dissection
• Tissue lysis, nucleic acid extraction or other basic bench techniques
• Familiarity with Benchling or similar electronic lab notebooks

About the company

Manifold Bio is a platform biotechnology company pioneering AI-guided protein design and massively multiplexed in vivo screening. Their team of protein engineers, biologists, and computational scientists works across a full stack to pursue programs internally and with pharma companies.