Avian Scientist (Reproductive/Breeding)

New York Ag Connection; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Relocation support

Job summary

Neion Bio seeks an Avian Scientist to lead reproductive and breeding programs for poultry species, including chickens and quail. The role covers hands-on care, semen collection, AI, and biobanking of transgenic lines, with a focus on welfare and regulatory compliance. A Ph.D.

or equivalent experience in poultry science or avian biology is preferred. Responsibilities span aviculture, incubation, hatching, genotyping, and ensuring health and environmental enrichment across life stages, in a

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Poultry Science, Avian Biology, or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Extensive hands-on avian care experience in research, farm, or zoo settings.
• Proven ability in avian semen collection, AI, and cryopreservation.
• Experience incubating eggs, hatching, and raising chicks to adulthood.
• Strong attention to detail and strict SOP compliance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee aviculture activities from egg collection through hatching and growth.
• Manage poultry breeding programs, including semen handling and AI.
• Biobank transgenic lines and coordinate mating workflows.
• Ensure animal health, welfare, and environmental enrichment.
• Maintain accurate animal and sample records and regulatory compliance.

Education

Ph.D. in Poultry Science, Avian Biology, or related field

Tools

AI

Job description

### Job Details#### Job Title:Avian Scientist (Reproductive/Breeding)#### Location:,, ,#### Company:#### Industry Sector:#### Industry Type:#### Career Type:#### Job Type:Full Time#### Minimum Years Experience Required:5#### Salary:$80K - $120K$80,000.00-$120,000.00 YEAR### Get Job Alerts**Career Type:** Scientist**Country:** USAI agree to receive alerts from and to the .Your alert was created successfully.x## General Alert Saved* The listings below are jobs matching the criteria you've selected for your General Alert on.Criteria selected was:* General alert saved for .* General alert notifications will be sent weekly on Monday.* Please note that you can only have one general alert active at any given time. Creating a new general alert will override an existing general alert.* Visit the to manage your alerts# Avian Scientist (Reproductive/Breeding)| Number of Years Experience: | Minimum Education Completed: | || Education Major / Discipline Category: | Most Recent / Current Occupation: | |**About Neion Bio**Neion Bio is harnessing nature's best molecular factory, the chicken egg, to make medicine affordable, accessible, and resilient. We turn farms into medicine factories using cutting edge genetic engineering and stem cell technology. These \"living bioreactors\" are fully autonomous 3D biomolecular printers that operate on existing industrial-scale infrastructure. Our platform can rapidly and scalably produce almost any protein, provide national resilience to drug shortages and de-risk complex supply chains, and ultimately take advantage of novel biological environments to solve unmet medical needs. Biomanufacturing, reinvented. Medicine, democratized.**Role Summary**We are seeking an **avian scientist** who will lead Neion's reproductive and breeding program across multiple species. This role involves hands-on care and handling of chickens and quail throughout their lifecycle, with a focus on reproductive biology in poultry, including AI, breeding and hatching, as well as additional aspects of avian veterinary care for chickens and quail. Candidates must be proficient in avian semen collection and analyses and comfortable performing AI in chickens; In addition, the ideal candidate will have experience with cryopreservation and be comfortable working in the lab as well as with animals.**Key Responsibilities*** **Aviculture**: Must be comfortable safely handling chickens and quail in a research setting. Requires working with small flocks at all stages of development from egg collection, incubation to successful hatching and growth. Must be able to safely restrain chicks and adults to collect and process samples, and ensure delivery of viable samples* **Avian Breeding (Poultry):** Help manage and biobank small transgenic chicken and quail flocks through natural cover, cryopreservation of semen and AI. Requires routine egg collection, incubation, hatching, sexing, and ensuring the integrity of genotyping* **Programmatic Support:** Ensure the viable biobanking of all of Neion's transgenic lines. Work with managers and teams to optimize mating workflows and ensure model transfer between sites* **Culture of Care:** Contribute to ensuring the health and environmental, nutritional and social enrichment of our flocks, and provide preventative and interventional vet care. Provides husbandry support as needed* **Biosecurity:** Must be comfortable operating in a shower in facility, wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and observing strict standard operating protocols (SOPs) to protect avian health* **Record Keeping:** Maintain timely and accurate animal electronic records to ensure provenance and tracking of every animal and sample* **Regulatory Compliance:** Help to ensure that research areas and records meet and exceed IACUC inspection compliance**Requirements*** Ph.D. in Poultry Science, Avian Biology, or related field, or equivalent industry experience and knowledge base. Experience providing high volume hands-on animal care in a research, small animal clinical, farm or zoological setting is critical, including direct hands-on avian experience* Extensive experience performing avian semen collection, artificial insemination (AI) and cryopreservation, as well as successfully incubating hatching eggs and raising chicks to adulthood* Extreme attention to detail is critical, as well as strict compliance with SOPs and are followed and documented* Ability to operate with quiet confidence and competence, individually and as part of a team to promote Neion Bio's culture of care**Benefits****Compensation**: Base salary is expected to be $80-120K depending on experience, with additional bonus compensation, equity compensation, and benefits including health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k), and relocation support.