# Research Associate, Protein Production at Flagship Pioneering

- Company: Flagship Pioneering
- What the company does: Pioneering Partnerships Latest News.
- Company website: https://www.flagshippioneering.com
- Type: VC firms
- Level: Associate
- Location: Cambridge, MA USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $65K to $94K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/flagshippioneeringinc/jobs/8868157002?gh_jid=8868157002&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/flagship-pioneering-research-associate-protein-production/

## About the role

What if… you could pioneer a new approach to designing life’s most essential molecules? Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Execute multi-liter recombinant expression campaigns in bacteria from construct transformation and culture growth through induction, harvest, and lysis
- Design, build, and run preparative purification methods on ÄKTA FPLC systems using UNICORN, including affinity, ion exchange, size exclusion, and mixed-mode chromatography
- Deliver milligram-to-gram quantities of highly pure, well-characterized protein
- Troubleshoot expression and purification challenges such as low yield, insolubility, aggregation, and proteolysis, and drive protocol improvements that increase yield and purity
- Bacterial library transformation, colony picking and sequencing
- Execute miniaturized, parallel protein expression and purification in plate-based formats

Tags: Research/Discovery

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/flagship-pioneering-research-associate-protein-production/