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Overview

Our Mission. Octant merges next-generation biology, chemistry, and computation to engineer precision medicines that push past the boundaries of traditional drug discovery.

News

News YahooFinance 4 years ago
Zymergen Expands Agreement with Octant to Scale Next-Generation Drug Discovery Platform
Octant doubles its initial investment in Zymergen's Automation Technology to significantly increase the scale and throughput of its drug discovery platformEMERYVILLE, Calif., July 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zymergen Inc. (
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News YahooFinance 4 years ago
Zymergen Sells Modular Automation System to Octant to Scale Next-Generation Drug Discovery Platform
EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zymergen Inc. (
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News Pulse 2.0 4 years ago
Therapeutics Company Octant Secures $80 Million In Series B Funding
Octant recently announced it raised $80 million in funding. These are the details.
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News MedCity News 4 years ago
BMS joins Octant's $80M financing and signs on as a drug discovery partner
Octant Bio's synthetic biology approach to drug discovery is making progress, and the preclinical biotech has raised $80 million in Series B financing to continue the journey. The company added Bristol Myers Squibb as an investor and collaborator in the s
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Press release Nasdaq 5 years ago
Octant Bio Appoints Industry Veteran Mark Murcko as Strategic Advisor and Board Member
Today, Octant, a therapeutics company integrating novel high-throughput experimental technologies with computation to solve complex challenges in drug discovery, announced the appointment of Mark Murcko as Strategic Advisor and Board Member. Murcko brings
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News Andreessen Horowitz 6 years ago
Investing in Octant
The octant was the dominant tool for maritime navigation in the 18th century because it enabled sailors to chart an accurate course, even in pitching and rolling seas. Like seafaring, drug discovery is, at its core, exploratory. The primary objective in t
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News CormacHogan.com 7 years ago
A first look at Octant - Visualizing your K8s clusters
In my lab, I run a number of different flavors of Kubernetes. Some of them I deploy via kubeadm. Others I have provisioned by VMware PKS. Some of these can access the outside world, while others are secured. Sometimes it is difficult to figure out the rel
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Octant over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
2
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
Python
Practices & domains
Machine Learning
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$235k
Typical range
$190k – $280k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Middle 50%
Staff 50%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $190k $190k
Staff 1 $280k $280k
Highest paying role Controller $280k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~18 hours
10/01/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Finance
50% ▲
Science & Research
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Emeryville
Emeryville United States
Octant HQ
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $235k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Science & Research
seen since Aug 2026 careers board, job postings