Phage Engineering Scientist - Wet Lab & ML Discovery

Tabula Bio; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Tabula Bio is hiring a Scientist to help build our wet-lab capability in synthetic phage engineering. This hands-on role focuses on constructing and testing engineered phages, running host-phage assays, and generating data that powers our learning system.

You will work closely with a small, collaborative team in Madison and across the San Francisco Bay Area, combining wet-lab work with computational insights to design living therapies. Prior bench science experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Run core molecular biology and synthetic biology workflows related to phage engineering
• Help construct, assemble, and test engineered phage variants
• Execute host-phage assays and related experimental workflows with strong attention to data quality
• Troubleshoot failures in constructs, assays, and protocols and improve them over time
• Generate clean, useful experimental data that informs model development and research direction
• Contribute to the growth of a small lab working on a technically ambitious problem with real-world consequences

Job description

Tabula Bio is hiring a Scientist to help build our wet-lab capability in synthetic phage engineering. This hands-on role focuses on constructing and testing engineered phages, running host-phage assays, and generating data that powers our learning system.

You will work closely with a small, collaborative team in Madison and across the San Francisco Bay Area, combining wet-lab work with computational insights to design living therapies. Prior bench science experience is preferred.