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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.\nWe 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.\nOur 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.\nWe’re growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation.\nAbout the Role\nYou'll build out protein expression and purification at Adaptyv, with a focus on mammalian systems - CHO and HEK, transient and stable. 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You'll lead the science and stay deeply hands-on.\nWhat You'll Do\nDevelop, optimize, and run mammalian expression hands-on (CHO/HEK, transient and stable), pushing titer, quality, and reproducibility.\n\nOwn purification across modalities (Protein A, IEX, SEC, and related) and the quality of the proteins we ship.\n\nTurn expression and purification into a productized, high-throughput, automated capability with predictable turnaround.\n\nPartner with lab automation to scale workflows onto automated systems, and reduce manual, person-dependent steps.\n\nWork with the software team to track samples and process parameters, and make production yields and quality observable and improvable.\n\nSet the quality bar and troubleshoot the inevitable failures across biology, reagents, and process.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nDeep, hands-on expertise in mammalian protein expression and purification - CHO/HEK, and the full path from construct to purified, characterized protein.\n\nApplied industry experience. 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