Adaptyv

Biotech

Scientist,ProteinExpression&Purification

$115–145k ~AI est. Lausanne, Switzerland FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Scientist, Protein Expression & Purification at Adaptyv. Skills: Protein expression, Protein purification, Mammalian systems. Develop mammalian expression. Optimize mammalian expression”

What You'll Achieve.

Push titer, quality, and reproducibility; Ensure quality of proteins shipped; Achieve predictable turnaround; Make production yields observable

Industry & Context.

Biotech
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshoot failures

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Deep, hands-on expertise in mammalian protein expression and purification, Applied industry experience in production or industrial setting, Track record of making production reliable

Nice to Have

Data fluency (scripting, tracking and analyzing process data) is a plus

What You'll Do.

Develop mammalian expression

Optimize mammalian expression

Run mammalian expression

Own purification across modalities

Turn expression into productized capability

Scale workflows onto automated systems

Track samples and process parameters

Make production observable and predictable

Troubleshoot failures

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Automation engineers; Software team

Full Job Description

Adaptyv is building an automated lab thats let AI agents run biology experiments. 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. 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. 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. We’re growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation. ABOUT THE ROLE You'll build out protein expression and purification at Adaptyv, with a focus on mammalian systems — CHO and HEK, transient and stable. This is the foundation the rest of the platform stands on: titers, quality, and turnaround here set the ceiling for everything downstream. Your job is to take expression and purification from bespoke, person-dependent protocols to a robust, automated, high-throughput product. You'll optimize and run the science hands-on, work with lab automation to scale it onto liquid handlers and automated systems, and work with the software team to track samples, capture process data, and make production observable and predictable. You'll lead the science and stay deeply hands-on. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Develop, optimize, and run mammalian expression hands-o

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