Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
As a Research Associate, you'll run molecular biology protocols on our robotic platforms and, in doing so, generate the demonstration data we use to train policies for autonomous experimentation. You're not just doing the science — you're teaching our robots to do it. Every clean cloning run, every well-executed prep is a training example that moves us closer to a lab that designs and runs its own experiments. This is a rare seat: half expert wet-lab scientist, half the person who teaches a robot to be one.
What they're looking for
- Hands-on molecular biology experience (BS/MS in a life science or equivalent bench experience). You're meticulous, reproducible, and have excellent lab technique
- A genuinely great gamer. Fast, precise hand-eye coordination, comfort with controllers and complex interfaces, and strong spatial reasoning — we'll train you on the robots, and the skills transfer more than you'd think
- Comfortable with ambiguity and the pace of an early-stage lab
- Excited, not threatened, by the idea of automating parts of your own job to allow you to focus on the parts that only people can do. That's the whole point, and you think it's cool
More about this role
Anthrogen is engineering post-modality biology. Today's modalities reflect historical contingencies in biological progress, not fundamental categories. We develop the AI systems that design modular biological machines — and the experimental infrastructure to instantiate them.
A core part of that infrastructure is a robotic lab that can run biology at a scale and consistency humans can't match. To get there, our robots need to learn from the best: expert scientists demonstrating how real molecular biology gets done. That's where you come in.
As a Research Associate, you'll run molecular biology protocols on our robotic platforms and, in doing so, generate the demonstration data we use to train policies for autonomous experimentation. You're not just doing the science — you're teaching our robots to do it. Every clean cloning run, every well-executed prep is a training example that moves us closer to a lab that designs and runs its own experiments.
This is a rare seat: half expert wet-lab scientist, half the person who teaches a robot to be one.
Execute molecular biology protocols — cloning, transformations, PCR, protein expression and purification, assay development — to a high...
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