# Research Engineer II / III

Category: ScienceLab/Area: Finkbeiner LabDescription: The Finkbeiner Lab at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, CA is hiring a Research Engineer (level II or III, depending on experience) to develop, operate and maintain our custom and commercial microscopy systems. You will support the development of our automated imaging platforms, including the newly invented Thinking Microscope and Robo5, help maintain our legacy systems, and build and maintain the image-analysis pipelines and data infrastructure that turn images into results. This is a hands-on role at the intersection of microscopy, computation and cell biology, and you will be a critical member of a team of biologists. Fluency with microscopes, from hardware and optics through acquisition software to the analysis pipeline, is the core of the job. Because our instruments are developed around real biological samples, wet bench and cell culture experience is a strong plus. The ideal candidate is interested in engineering, biology, high-throughput systems, robotics and artificial intelligence, and is comfortable troubleshooting an instrument and writing analysis code, and ideally preparing cells for imaging. What you will

- **Id**: 4102023
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gladstone-institutes-research-engineer-ii-iii>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T21:56:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T01:13:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6361
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Biotechnology, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 1818788
- **Name**: Gladstone Institutes
- **Domain**: gladstone.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gladstone-org>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 78000
- **Max**: 92000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 92000

## Technologies

- **Cell Culture** — Optional: no
- **Confocal Microscopy** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Keras** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T21:56:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 92000
- **Is top pay**: no

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