Are you looking for a new challenge? We’re building a data platform to help our scientists use robots and machine learning to grow bacteria.
The MicroByre team brings new bacteria into the stable. The vast majority of microbes on the planet are not currently considered cultivable let alone genetically modifiable. MicroByre domesticates and then genetically engineers otherwise inaccessible and under-appreciated bacteria. Newly cooperative bacteria will help us replace ancient biomass (petrochemicals) with renewable biomass (lawn clippings) efficiently and economically.
We need your expert help. Your teammates are world class chemists, molecular biologists, synthetic biologists, and microbiologists using robots to grow bacteria. We have a wide variety of data, visualization needs, and workflows for automation of our processes. Our users interact with our data platform via a variety of tools and dashboards and high quality user experience is important to us.
You will show them a new ways to visual our data, traverse graphs of genomic data, display and curate taxonomies. You'll be part of a team developing a new data platform with interfaces for programming automations, data analysis, and visualizations while hiding the complexities of data collection, annotation, task orchestration, and robot control. Your creativity will show up in everything from python notebooks, dedicated dashboards, to single-page browser-based applications.
We primarily develop our systems in python, develop API services in Flask, and deploy services in Kubernetes. User interfaces for these services are developed in a combination of technologies like React, visualization libraries like cytoscape.js, toolkit like UIKit, just plain HTML/CSS and JavaScript.
This role provides the opportunity to work directly with senior staff building the data platform and services that interact with our scalable automation for our scientific workflows.
This position requires a high degree of interactions with our users but we're very flexible. We want you to meet our scientists, build a good working relationship with them (and our data), while offering a schedule that works best for you! So you need to be near enough to be in the office on a regular, reliable basis with remote work available on a flexible schedule.
MicroByre is a biotech startup located in the Berkeley/Oakland Bay Area. We closed a round of funding in early 2022 and are growing fast!
We offer a flexible working environment with a competitive salary and the opportunity to work remotely (flex or partial).
The salary range for the position is $120k-$145k + equity
We offer competitive benefits:
We offer a professional and intellectually stimulating work environment with plenty of opportunities to train up. You'll be surrounded by industry leaders who can provide mentorship. Also, we can provide other professional development or training in job-related skills.
We take a lesson from the diversity evident from the study of ecology: it takes a lot of different kinds of skills working together with mutual respect to make a dent in the world. We are committed to maintaining a work environment free of harassment and discrimination. All recruitment, salary, and promotion decisions are based on business need, qualification, and job requirements with no regard to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, family or parental status, veteran or disability status, religion or belief, or age. MicroByre is not sponsoring work visas or reimbursing relocation expenses for this position.