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About the Role
Seeking an adaptable and organized caretaker/technician/associate motivated by the ethical care of animals to contribute to Neion’s research program. This role involves hands-on care and handling of chickens and quail throughout their lifecycle, focusing on reproductive biology, including artificial insemination, hatching, and breeding, as well as avian veterinary care.
Responsibilities
- Safely handle chickens in a research setting, working with small flocks from egg collection through growth.
- Perform avian breeding procedures including artificial insemination, natural cover breeding, cryopreservation of semen, egg collection, incubation, hatching, sexing, and genotyping.
- Carry out veterinary procedures such as safely restraining animals, performing venipuncture, collecting and processing samples, ensuring lab delivery, and providing preventative and interventional care.
- Maintain biosecurity by showering into the facility, working in full PPE, and observing strict SOPs.
- Contribute to ensuring the health, environmental, nutritional, and social enrichment of flocks.
- Maintain timely and accurate animal records.
- Help ensure research areas and records meet and exceed IACUC inspection compliance.
Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on animal care experience in a research, small animal clinical, farm, or zoological setting, including direct hands-on avian experience.
- Prior experience with artificial insemination, cryopreservation of semen, incubating and hatching eggs, and raising chickens.
- Undergraduate or associate degree in biological sciences or related fields, or equivalent industry experience.
- Extreme attention to detail and strict compliance with SOPs.
- Ability to operate with quiet confidence and competence, individually and as part of a team.
Skills
- Animal handling
- Artificial insemination
- Cryopreservation of semen
- Egg incubation
- Hatching
- Chicken rearing
- Venipuncture
- Sample collection and processing
- Biosecurity protocols
- Record keeping
- Regulatory compliance
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Associate's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Equivalent industry experience
Salary/Compensations
- $60,000 - $80,000
Benefits
- Bonus compensation
- Equity compensation
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Relocation support
About the Company
- Neion Bio is harnessing nature’s best molecular factory, the chicken egg, to make medicine affordable, accessible, and resilient.
- We turn farms into medicine factories using cutting edge genetic engineering and stem cell technology.
- Our platform can rapidly and scalably produce almost any protein, provide national resilience to drug shortages and de-risk complex supply chains, and ultimately take advantage of novel biological environments to solve unmet medical needs.
- Biomanufacturing, reinvented. Medicine, democratized.
- We are on a mission to reimagine the way in which complex biological molecules are produced to transform human health.
- At Neion Bio you will play a pivotal role in an early-stage, fast-growing company, working alongside leading scientists and entrepreneurs.
- This is a rare opportunity to work at the center of a highly ambitious biotechnology company and help build the operating foundation for a new category of medicine manufacturing.