Medra
Scientific Operations
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 85 days ago
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About the role
- The Scientific Operations role is a highly operational role responsible for the performance, readiness, and continuous improvement of ML001.
- This person brings strong program management instincts to a scientific environment - owning lab readiness, asset management, inventory, safety and compliance, and facilities coordination.
- Scientific Operations works closely with scientists, engineers, and the operations team to ensure ML001 runs as a high-utilization, audit-ready facility.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day lab operations to ensure instruments, consumables, and lab spaces are ready to support scheduled work
- Own the preventive maintenance and calibration program across all lab equipment - building the system, coordinating vendors, and ensuring record integrity
- Design and operate a scalable lab inventory program, including par levels, reorder triggers, audit cadence, and SKU-level vendor management
- Own the lab asset register and lifecycle planning, including warranty tracking and service contract management
- Develop, implement, and maintain SOPs and lab protocols
- Manage lab-level facilities work, including HVAC, cold storage, BSL-2 buildout, and equipment layout, in coordination with external facilities vendors
- Build and run the onboarding program for scientists, research associates, and engineers on lab logistics, safety, and operating norms
- Partner with the operations and procurement teams on capital equipment requests, vendor contracts, and service agreements
- Partner with science and engineering teams on workflow design, instrument requirements, and integration with automation systems
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in biology, biochemistry, or a relevant scientific discipline
Nice to have
- Prior experience as a bench scientist
- Experience supporting multi-customer or contract research environments
- Experience scaling a lab through a buildout or growth phase
- LIMS or ELN implementation experience
- Familiarity with lab automation and robotics platforms
- Experience operating within ISO 9001, GLP, or comparable quality systems
Skills
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Benefits
- Significant equity ownership
- Medical insurance and dental Insurance
- We offer relocation benefits for applicants who need to relocate.
- Bonus Points If You Have:
Company info
- We're a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers and scientists from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We're collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!
- As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics - plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.
- Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don't mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.
- At Medra, our mission is to use AI, robotics, and biology to accelerate life science research, with the ultimate goal of eradicating disease.
- We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our
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