Raven StealthCo - Scientist/Senior Scientist, Protein Engineering and Discovery Biology

Raven; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Raven StealthCo in Cambridge/Boston area is seeking a Scientist/Senior Scientist to advance protein engineering and discovery biology efforts. The role focuses on developing oligo-based modalities and platforms to enable targeted delivery and novel therapeutic approaches.

The team operates within Raven StealthCo, an incubator-backed venture focused on translating scientific breakthroughs into transformative therapies with an emphasis on rapid validation and scalable platforms.

Job description

Raven StealthCo - Scientist/Senior Scientist, Protein Engineering and Discovery Biology

About Raven: We are Raven, RA Capital's healthcare incubator. From discovery to delivery, whether we incubate, accelerate or rejuvenate, Raven's goal is to turn scientific breakthroughs into transformative therapies and get them quickly, safely and efficiently to the patients that need them most.
About RA Capital: Founded in 2004, RA Capital Management is a multi-stage investment manager dedicated to evidence-based investing in public and private healthcare, life sciences, and planetary health companies. RA Capital creates and funds innovative companies, from private seed rounds to public followon financings, allowing management teams to drive value creation from inception through commercialization and beyond. RA Capital's knowledge engine is guided by our TechAtlas internal research division, and Raven, RA Capital's company building team, offers entrepreneurs and innovators a collaborative and comprehensive platform to explore the novel and the re-imagined. RA Capital has more than 150 employees and over $10 billion in assets under management.

Company Background

We are a well-funded, stealth-mode biotechnology focused on next generation oligo-based modalities targeting tissues beyond the liver, muscle, and kidney. We are buildinga platform to deliver oligos with high precision to previously untargeted cells, while focused on "undruggable" genes, alone or in combination with previously validated targets. Many of our targets carry "pipeline-in-a-drug" potential: a single gene or protein with meaningful biological effects across multiple disease areas. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company was incubated in RA Capital's venture group (Raven) and is led by an experienced CEO. After a robust incubation and vetting process, Raven StealthCo was launched and funded by RA Capital. The company's therapeutic areas of interest lie outside commonly targeted cells and tissues, and represent multi-billion-dollar markets that are continuing to grow as thepopulation ages. Our initial focus is creating transformational therapies to treatdiseases, but given the platform potential, we have longer-term ambitions to addresshealthy aging. These targets are backed by strong biological and genetic evidence buthave historically resisted small molecule and biologic approaches. Raven StealthCo ismoving quickly to address multiple disease indications at scale and with significantmarket potential.

We are in the discovery stage and will invest heavily in our emerging platform for oligonucleotide delivery. Our disease focus offers strong translatability from animal models to humans, which provides a potentially rapid and efficient path to the clinic. Given our recent funding and commitment to building