Neuroscience Research Technician I — On-site New Haven

Bexorg, Inc.; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 33,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Bexorg, Inc. is seeking a Research Technician I to join the NeuroScale team on-site in New Haven, CT.

The role is an early career, full-time position with rotating night shifts, offering hands-on bench work and training from senior staff. You will maintain brain slice and cell cultures, run assays, learn imaging and tissue methods, and help record data to support CNS drug studies in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in biology, neuroscience, biomedical engineering or related field, or an associate degree with hands-on lab experience.
• 0–2 years of lab experience, including internships, co-ops or lab courses.
• Hands-on sterile cell or tissue culture.
• Solid basic lab skills: accurate pipetting, solution preparation, and use of plate readers or similar instruments.
• Careful, consistent record keeping.
• Willingness to work rotating night shifts and weekends.
• Comfort working with human post-mortem tissue under biosafety level 2 (BSL‑2) practice, with training provided.
• Can do attitude.

Responsibilities

• Care for organotypic human brain slice cultures and cell cultures: media changes, drug dosing and daily checks, all with strict sterile technique.
• Prepare media, buffers, reagents and drug plates to written protocols.
• Run plate‑based assays: CellTiter‑Glo viability, and pyruvate and lactate measurements from culture media.
• Stain slices with live fluorescent dyes and image them on our widefield fluorescence microscope and slide scanner, following set imaging protocols.
• Cut thin cryosections (8–20 µm) from fixed slices on a cryostat, mount them and help with immunofluorescence staining.
• Support qPCR (RNA extraction, plate setup) and RNAscope in situ hybridization runs under supervision.
• Help run drug screening experiments in multi‑well plates, following plate maps and dosing schedules.
• Record samples, treatments and results accurately in our sample‑tracking and data systems.
• Keep the lab running: stock and inventory, equipment cleaning, waste handling and safety upkeep.
• Work night shifts and weekends on a rotating schedule to keep cultures and assays on time.

Skills

Sterile cell culture

Pipetting

Record keeping

Night shift willingness

BSL-2 handling

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's in biology/neuroscience/biomedical engineering or related field

Associate degree with hands-on lab experience

Tools

Plate readers

Fluorescence microscope

Cryostat

Job description

Bexorg, Inc. is seeking a Research Technician I to join the NeuroScale team on-site in New Haven, CT.

The role is an early career, full-time position with rotating night shifts, offering hands-on bench work and training from senior staff. You will maintain brain slice and cell cultures, run assays, learn imaging and tissue methods, and help record data to support CNS drug studies in a collaborative environment.