# Scientist, Applied Cell Line Development & Customer Programs

We’re looking for an experienced Scientist to lead external customer projects focused on mammalian cell line development for biomanufacturing. Prolific’s optogenetic platform uses light to control cellular activity, creating new opportunities to improve recombinant protein production. Working with this emerging technology requires curiosity, creative problem-solving, and hands-on troubleshooting as you help translate platform advances into robust customer workflows. This role connects technical design, experimental execution, and team leadership - translating Prolific’s platform capabilities into reliable outcomes for customer delivery. Working closely with the department head responsible for customer delivery, you will own the technical approach, day-to-day execution, and high level oversight of assigned projects. You will work closely with research associates and junior scientists, providing clear priorities, experimental guidance, and support for their professional development. In partnership with project managers and cross-functional technical teams, you will keep projects on track, resolve execution challenges, and communicate results, risks, and recommendations to internal an

- **Id**: 3911971
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/prolific-machines-scientist-applied-cell-line-development-customer-programs>
- **Role**: Biotech
- **Role family**: Biotech
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Emeryville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T05:15:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T14:31:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6201
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Synthetic Biology, Drug Discovery

## Company

- **Id**: 685503
- **Name**: Prolific Machines
- **Domain**: prolific-machines.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/prolific-machines>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 184987
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 184987

## Technologies

- **Flow Cytometry** — Optional: no
- **Molecular Cloning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T08:17:17Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 184987
- **Is top pay**: yes

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