Bioengineering & Advanced Manufacturing Grad Appointee

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Livermore (CA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Benefits

401(k)

Relocation Assistance

Education Reimbursement Program

Flexible schedules

Job summary

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA, invites applications for an Academic Graduate Appointee to support research in the Bioengineering and Advanced Fabrication Group. You will contribute to design, fabrication, testing, and characterization of advanced materials, microfabricated devices, and biomedical technologies for multidisciplinary applications.

This one-year position offers hands-on experience across bioengineering, materials science, microfabrication, and additive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in bioengineering, biomedical engineering, materials science, chemical engineering, biology, or a related field.
• Experience or relevant coursework in biomaterials, tissue engineering, microfluidics, organ-on-a-chip systems, or additive manufacturing.
• Experience with hydrogel or bioink formulation and characterization.
• Familiarity with 3D bioprinting, preferably digital light processing, DLP, bioprinting.
• Experience with sterile mammalian cell culture and aseptic laboratory techniques.
• Familiarity with biological and materials characterization methods, such as rheology, microscopy, immunostaining, cell-viability assays, or image analysis.
• Ability to collect, analyze, visualize, and document experimental data using laboratory notebooks and standard data-analysis software.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate in a multidisciplinary research environment and contribute to technical reports, presentations, and literature reviews

Responsibilities

• Assist with the design, fabrication, and evaluation of bioprinted tissue constructs, organ-on-a-chip devices, and related material systems for bioengineering applications.
• Prepare bioinks, hydrogels, cells, microfabricated devices, samples, and test structures for experimental studies.
• Support DLP bioprinting of multi-material and multicellular hydrogel constructs, including vascular-like architectures.
• Assist with sterile mammalian cell culture, cell encapsulation, device seeding, and maintenance of engineered tissue models under aseptic conditions.
• Conduct biomaterial and tissue characterization using methods such as rheology, swelling analysis, immunostaining, confocal microscopy, and cell-viability assays.
• Collect, analyze, visualize, and document experimental data in laboratory notebooks, technical summaries, and presentations.
• Develop, refine, and follow experimental procedures in collaboration with scientists, engineers, and technical staff.
• Conduct literature reviews and contribute to technical reports, presentations, and publications.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Biomaterials

Tissue engineering

3D bioprinting

Biofabrication

Education

Bachelor's degree in bioengineering, biomedical engineering, materials science, chemical engineering, biology, or related field

Tools

Python

Job description

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA, invites applications for an Academic Graduate Appointee to support research in the Bioengineering and Advanced Fabrication Group. You will contribute to design, fabrication, testing, and characterization of advanced materials, microfabricated devices, and biomedical technologies for multidisciplinary applications.

This one-year position offers hands-on experience across bioengineering, materials science, microfabrication, and additive