You'll build out cell-based and functional assays at Adaptyv — the work that proves an antibody or protein actually does something: activates or blocks a receptor, triggers signaling, kills a cell, or modulates an immune response. Cell activation assays, reporter systems, potency assays, and antibody functional readouts are the heart of this role. This is the most interdisciplinary of our scientist roles. A new functional assay starts as bespoke science and has to become a reliable, automated product. You'll design and run the assays hands-on with the biology team, work with lab automation to make them robust and high-throughput, and work with the software team to capture, model, and interpret the data — turning messy cell-based readouts into clean, comparable results. You'll guide and lead, but the value is in setting up real, working assays, not in managing.
Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world. We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward. This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today. Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development. We’re growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation.
