# Bioprocess engineer/technician

About Symbl Symbl is a University of Toronto spinout turning dairy waste into a sustainable replacement for palm-derived ingredients (medium chain fatty acids; MCFAs) used in food, animal feed, personal care and industrial chemicals. We are a small, founder-led team of chemical engineers and synthetic biologists, backed by Ontario Genomics and the University of Toronto. The role You will be a full-time bioprocess technician leading day-to-day operation of a 100 L pilot bioreactor. The system will be installed in our lab space at the University of Toronto. No professional engineering designation is required; we care most about hands-on bioreactor experience, curiosity, and a get-things-done attitude. We are looking for a highly-driven problem solver who shares our passion for deploying biology as a tool for energy efficient, circular, and decentralized production systems. As an early member of our team, you will be working closely with the founding team of experts in anaerobic biotechnology, and you can expect lots of visibility into the day-to-day development of a university spinout company. Start date in December 2026 or January 2027 (flexible). Responsibilities Pilot

- **Id**: 3741337
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/symbl-bioprocess-engineertechnician>
- **Role**: Biotech
- **Role family**: Biotech
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2947
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Natural Language Processing, Conversational AI, Speech & Audio AI

## Company

- **Id**: 31544
- **Name**: Symbl
- **Domain**: symbl.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/symbl>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Technologies

- **Bioreactors** — Optional: no
- **HPLC** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T11:46:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:7, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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