Cradle
Biotechnology
ResearchAssociateBiology,HighThroughputExperimentation
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“Research Associate Biology, High Throughput Experimentation at Cradle. Skills: Molecular biology, Protein expression, Protein purification. Run DNA synthesis workflows. Run DNA assembly workflows”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Standard molecular biology techniques, Cloning, In vitro protein expression systems, In vivo protein expression systems, English verbal and written communication skills
Nice to Have
Protein purification techniques, Assay development, Protein expression in cell-free systems, Next-generation sequencing techniques, Classical high-throughput laboratory automation, High-throughput advanced cloning technologies
What You'll Do.
Run DNA synthesis workflows
Run DNA assembly workflows
Run protein expression workflows
Run protein purification workflows
Run protein characterisation workflows
Improve wet lab methods
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional environment
Communication Scope
Verbal communication skills; Written communication skills; Proactively sharing results
Process & Methodology
Run multiple projects simultaneously
Full Job Description
THIS IS CRADLE Proteins are the molecular machines of life, used for many therapeutic, diagnostic, chemical, agricultural and food applications. Designing and optimizing proteins takes a lot of expert knowledge and manual effort, through the use of custom computational and biological tools. Machine learning is revolutionizing this space, by enabling high-fidelity protein models. At Cradle, we offer a software platform for AI-guided discovery and optimization of proteins, so that biologists can design proteins faster and at scale. We are already used by clients across biopharma, biotech, agri-tech, food-tech, and academia. We're an experienced team of around 90 people. We've built many successful products before and have enough funding for multiple years of runway. We are distributed across two main locations, Zurich and Amsterdam, and are focused on building the best possible team culture. We offer our employees a very competitive salary, a generous equity stake in the company and a wide range of benefits and career progression opportunities. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR For this role, we are looking for a motivated Research Associate to strengthen our Bioengineering team. This team is responsible for developing and running high-throughput workflows for building DNA libraries, expressing and purifying proteins, and running characterization studies (e.g. enzyme activity or binding assays). We’ve built a wet-lab infrastructure with a lot of high-throughput automation, enabling much more scalable and cost-effective experimentation, working hand in hand with our machine learning algorithms. Next to more established methods, we’re also developing workflows that are based on fundamentally different techniques than currently is mainstream. As a Research Associate, you'll join a diverse team of researchers to collaboratively execute and continuously improve novel wet lab methods for our DNA construction and protein optimization pipeline. If you enjoy running molecular biology wor
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