This is a full-time position, on-site (San Carlos, CA), Thursday - Monday (including weekends).

Our Mission: Engage Bio is a Y Combinator-backed, seed-stage biotech developing new immunotherapies to eliminate cancer. Our platform technology turns tumors into factories for immune-engaging drugs. This local production improves efficacy and reduces toxicity by greatly increasing the concentration of drug within the tumor relative to distant tissues, allowing us to completely eliminate tumors while sparing healthy tissues. We believe this solution has the potential to radically transform cancer therapy.

Our Work: It’s exciting, fast-paced, and rewarding. We believe that the elimination of human diseases, starting with cancer, is the most valuable goal we can aspire to - and we're looking for others who share our passion.

The Role: We are seeking a Research Associate to join our growing team and to keep our research moving forward over weekends. Your key responsibility will be to set up and run in vitro reactions, perform molecular cloning, to assist with other experiments (ranging from bacterial culture, mammalian cell culture, and mouse experiments), and to generally support lab operations (preparing media, organizing the lab, etc.). We will provide extensive training in each of these areas.

This is a great way to gain broad / diverse experience in early-stage biotechnology development, and offers learning opportunities in areas spanning nucleic acid therapy design, in vivo (mouse and rat) studies, immunology, and cancer biology.

Your Experience Level: Bachelor's degree in the sciences. This role is perfect for new graduates with some laboratory experience and/or those who have 1-2 years of experience in industry / academia.

Valuable Prior Experience: We’re committed to training and lifelong learning; this extends to the key tasks for this role, as our scientist-mentors are happy to train new team members. That said, prior experience is always appreciated. If you have experience in any of the following areas, please let us know in a brief cover letter:

In vitro reactions (PCR, cloning)
Bacterial cell culture
Mammalian cell culture
High throughput assays / pipetting (96- or 384-well)
In vivo work (mouse handling)

Our Lab: We have an awesome space at MBC Biolabs, San Carlos (https://mbcbiolabs.com), which features:

Brand new / cutting edge equipment
Unlimited food / snacks; frequent catering by guest lecturers / visiting companies
Collaborative environment filled with smart and interesting scientists and entrepreneurs
Ping pong tournaments and other entertaining events

Salary & Benefits:

$50,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year (depending on experience level)
Significant equity compensation
Performance-based bonus
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance

If your goal is to tackle difficult, but important challenges, and hopefully defeat cancer in the process, please reach out to us.

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Research Associate (Entry Level, Thursday-Mon, Immunotherapy Development)