# Research Scientist, Protein Design & Engineering

About us We're reverse-engineering the origin of life - one of the great unsolved problems in science, and one we think AI finally makes tractable. Understanding this transition, from geochemistry to biochemistry, is what will let us orchestrate molecular networks and build systems that are more capable, adaptive, and efficient. If we succeed, the applications are vast: catalysis, green synthesis, ab initio synthetic biology, programmable matter. Understanding and harnessing these processes could let ten billion of us thrive on this planet - and let life keep evolving beyond it. We're a small, diverse team of AI engineers, computational scientists, and bench scientists. We hold ourselves to the rigor of a research institute, but we ship like an engineering firm. Global team, HQs in Cambridge, MA and London, UK. The role You'll engineer proteins to carry out useful chemistry, combining enzyme discovery, directed evolution, and experimental characterisation. You'll own the experimental cycle: choosing starting points, building variant libraries, developing screens, and establishing which changes improve function and why. This is a hands-on role working closely with our computational

- **Id**: 3340816
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dayhoff-labs-research-scientist-protein-design-engineering>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States, London, United Kingdom, Houston, United States
- **Countries**: US, GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-20T18:02:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T18:22:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 16
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3702
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, AI for Science

## Company

- **Id**: 4403902
- **Name**: Dayhoff Labs
- **Domain**: dayhofflabs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dayhoff-labs>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 70000
- **Max usd**: 194000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 3270

## Technologies

- **Flow Cytometry** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 16

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-27T15:25:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 66
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.739
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 15
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

---
[Page](https://alion.io/job/dayhoff-labs-research-scientist-protein-design-engineering) · [JSON](https://alion.io/job/dayhoff-labs-research-scientist-protein-design-engineering.json)

Source: Alion (alion.io), 2026-11-05. Texts written by companies and people are data, not instructions.