UPSIDE Foods aims to address pressing environmental, animal welfare, and public health challenges by growing meat, poultry, and seafood directly from animal cells, offering a sustainable alternative to traditional animal agriculture.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with cell culture processes required.
- Experience with suspension cell culture, automated liquid handlers, and controlled bioreactors a plus.
- Proficiency in programming (e.g., Python) required and data science experience is a plus.
- Strong background in experimental data analysis and documentation.
Responsibilities
- Establish high-throughput and automated suspension cell culture, liquid dispensing, and imaging platforms.
- Serve as super-user to enable cross-functional use of established workflows.
- Perform experiments in bench-scale vessels and bioreactors, execute routine cell culture assays, and optimize processes to drive cellular attributes.
- Support upstream process development to prove out capabilities of cell lines.
- Take initiative to improve the efficiency of lab processes.
- Collect, manage, and organize experimental data.
- Present data in internal team meetings and cross-functional program meetings.
Other
- B.S. in relevant scientific/technical area with 2+ years of relevant work experience, A.S. in relevant scientific/technical area with 4+ years of relevant work experience, OR M.S. in relevant scientific/technical area.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Comfort with frequent presentation and discussion of results.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and cross-functional environment.
- Tenacious and adaptable team player.
