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Designing and optimizing proteins takes a lot of expert knowledge and manual effort, through the use of custom computational and biological tools.\nMachine 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.\nWe're an experienced team of just under 100 people. We've built many successful products before and have enough funding for multiple years of runway. We are distributed across three offices in Amsterdam, Boston, and Zurich, alongside a few remote colleagues.\nWe offer our employees a very competitive salary, a generous equity stake in the company and a wide range of benefits and career progression opportunities.\nYour Role\nAs a Scientific Advisor within our Customer Success team, you will play a key role in ensuring our customers achieve success with Cradle’s software and services. You’ll act as a trusted partner of biotech and pharmaceutical companies, particularly for biotherapeutic and antibody projects. As part of this role, you’ll assist customers in mapping their program goals and data to Cradle’s capabilities, using our machine learning platform, and maximising the value and impact of our protein optimisation software. For this, you’ll collaborate across Cradle’s engineering, product, and sales teams to ensure a superb customer experience and inform product development to build the most sought-after features.\nYour Responsibilities\nScientific advisory\nWork closely with Cradle customers, ranging from medium-sized biotechs to global biopharma leaders, to:\nAdvise on identifying protein optimisation projects within their portfolios that are best suited to the Cradle platform.\n\nHelp translate scientific goals of projects (predominantly biotherapeutics) into objectives for the Cradle platform.\n\nDeeply understand customer assays/workflows - research modalities/targets as necessary to gain a foundation in relevant concepts, assays and workflows.\n\nEnsure quality/formatting of customer data is suitable for machine learning\n\nTrain them to use Cradle’s platform.\n\nCollaborate with engineering to ensure our platform outputs optimal protein designs to customers.\n\nPresent reports to help the customer interpret and assess platform outputs and forecasts.\n\nProvide recommendations to inform go/no-go decisions and devise the most effective strategy for their projects.\n\nPartnership\nBuild and maintain strong relationships with immediate users of Cradle platform within the customer organization, as well as broader business stakeholders. Keep them abreast of results and impact, on both project and portfolio levels.\n\nHelp existing customers identify further projects and business units that would benefit from Cradle’s platform, and collaborate with the Cradle sales team to enable these projects through relationship expansion.\n\nCustomer Experience and Voice of customer\nMeasure and monitor satisfaction of the customers with product as well as service.\n\nProactively gather customer feedback, and keep the customers informed as their feedback is then turned into improved features and services.\n\nCollaborate with product teams at Cradle to guide product development so as to address customer needs.\n\nYour Qualifications\nMust-haves\nPhD in molecular biology, bioengineering, bioinformatics, or a related field.\n\n5+ years of experience in biopharma in a scientific role in protein engineering, focusing on antibodies, with experience with biophysical and/or functional assays.\n\nDeep knowledge of the biopharmaceutical R&D process, methods, and tooling.\n\nExcellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex scientific concepts into clear, actionable insights.\n\nProven ability to build strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including scientists and business leaders.\n\nNice-to-haves\nExperience with machine learning\n\nExperience with non-antibody protein modalities, particularly enzymes.\n\nExperience in relationship management and/or sales in biotech or software industry\n\nProficiency in Python and relevant data science libraries (pandas, scikit, scipy, matplotlib, etc.). Familiarity with SQL.\n\nOur commitment to inclusive hiring\nCradle evaluates all candidates based on merit, regardless of sex, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, or any other aspect of identity. We maintain zero tolerance for discrimination and actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.\nAI disclosure\nCradle uses an applicant tracking system that includes basic AI-assisted features which may generate scores or rankings based on how applications match a job description. These outputs are not used to make or meaningfully influence hiring decisions - all candidates are evaluated through a thorough, human-led review by our recruiting team.\nA notice about recruitment scams\nPlease be aware that scammers are posing as us in order to get your personal details or money. 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