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About the Role

As our first Sci Ops Associate, you will own the repeatable scientific operations that keep our researchers unblocked. This is a highly hands-on role where you will collaborate with researchers, anticipate needs, establish SOPs, run QC, and continuously improve methods.

Responsibilities

• Perform and own routine cell biology tasks including mycoplasma testing, cell line banking and expansion, and cryovial inventory monitoring.
• Prepare lab stocks by dissolving, adjusting pH, filtering, and aliquoting media, buffers, and antibiotic stocks.
• Make purified proteins and glycerol stocks to support recurring scientific workflows.
• Pour agar plates with appropriate antibiotics and prepare competent cells with transformation efficiency QC.
• Fabricate lab-specific consumables that cannot be purchased.
• Coordinate contamination response.
• Support general cloning workflows to reduce prep burden on scientists.
• Assist with LabOps duties such as bench/TC area resets, incubator maintenance, autoclave scheduling, and shelf stocking.
• Write and maintain SOPs for all recurring tasks.

Requirements

• Hands-on wet-lab experience, including sterile technique, reagent preparation, cell culture, protein expression/purification, and multi-well plate workflows.
• A track record of executing repetitive, detail-critical work reliably and independently.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to working across scientific and operations teams.
• Strong organization skills and the ability to keep materials, schedules, and documentation clear and current.
• Curiosity about the science and awareness of project needs to anticipate researcher requirements.
• Experience writing or following SOPs in a research or regulated lab environment.
• Comfort operating in an early-stage environment where priorities shift and structure is still being built.
• Genuine interest in enabling cutting-edge research.

Skills

• Sterile technique
• Reagent preparation
• Cell culture
• Protein expression/purification
• Multi-well plate workflows
• SOP writing
• Quality Control (QC)
• Communication skills
• Organization skills

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Entry-level

About the Company

• Merge Labs is a frontier research lab with the mission of bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency and experience.
• We’re pursuing this goal by developing fundamentally new approaches to brain-computer interfaces that interact with the brain at high bandwidth, integrate with advanced AI, and are ultimately safe and accessible for anyone to use.
• The Lab Operations team is the operational backbone of Merge Labs, responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of our R&D environment.
• We maintain a wide scope of ownership that spans Scientific Operations, Equipment Management, Safety, Lab Facilities, Procurement, and Logistics.
• Our mission is to create a world-class Lab Operations System that not only enables our scientists and engineers but, through integrated systems and operational excellence, actively accelerates their progress.

Equal Opportunity

• Merge Labs does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family status, ancestry, citizenship, U.S. military (state and federal) and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
• It is our intention that all applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on job related factors.
• We are an equal opportunity employer.
• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@merge.io.