Feanix Autopilot combines whole-genome sequencing, DairyComp, EZfeed, milk checks, feed costs, health records, and real farm performance data into one prediction engine that prices every cow on your economics — not the industry average. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Feanix is hiring a Director of Lab Operations to lead our genomics lab in Scotts Valley, California, and scale it into a high-throughput production operation that keeps pace with our commercial growth. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Master’s degree or PhD in molecular biology, genomics, genetics, biotechnology, biochemistry or a related field
- 10+ years of laboratory experience, including 5+ years leading lab operations and 2+ years managing managers or supervisors
- A track record of scaling a startup, early-stage or fast-growing commercial lab into a reliable, high-throughput production operation
- Direct accountability for lab production, throughput, quality and cost, not only research or assay development
- Experience owning a lab budget, including operating and capital planning, vendor negotiations and cost-per-sample improvement
- Deep expertise in Illumina and short-read NGS technologies and their sample-prep and sequencing workflows
More about this role
Feanix is rebuilding animal breeding from the genome up.
We’re a YC-backed startup using whole-genome sequencing and custom ML models to help dairy farmers make better breeding and herd management decisions. Our technology is genuinely novel: we can sequence a full genome from a single hair at a fraction of traditional industry costs, our models achieve ~90% prediction accuracy on traits where existing approaches sit closer to ~30%, and we’re pioneering farm-specific genomic predictions that turn genetics into practical, actionable decisions.
That technology is translating into real adoption. In a short time, we’ve grown to serve roughly 1% of the U.S. dairy industry, with many customers in the pipeline. We started with dairy because our founders grew up on dairy farms and understand firsthand the problems we’re solving. But genetics is foundational to every agricultural industry, and dairy is only the beginning.
We’re building Feanix with a small, high-caliber team where people have meaningful ownership and work end to end. There are no unnecessary layers and very little room for busywork — just difficult problems at the intersection of biology, data, and software that haven’t...
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