Scientist: Microscopy

AION Biosciences; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for the right person

Job summary

AION Biosciences in St. Louis, MO is seeking a Scientist to own cell culture and run experiments on custom microscopy platforms, collaborating with engineers to rapidly iterate instrumentation.

You will design experiments end-to-end, perform imaging and data analysis, and build repeatable workflows with documentation to turn results into reliable systems. Applicants should have hands-on mammalian cell culture experience, strong microscopy skills, and comfort working closely with mechanical and

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on mammalian cell culture experience and ability to own cultures independently.
• Strong microscopy experience including sample prep, image acquisition, and quantitative analysis.
• Comfort working with engineers to debug and iterate microscopes and workflows.
• Able to reason about fixtures, alignment, motion, and sample handling.

Responsibilities

• Own cell experiments end to end: culture, design, prep, imaging, data collection and analysis.
• Run ultrasound and magnetic-field experiments on custom microscope platforms.
• Collaborate with engineers to debug and rapidly iterate hardware and imaging workflows.
• Build controls, documentation and repeatability to turn results into reliable systems.

Skills

Cell culture

Microscopy

Imaging sequences coding

Ultrasound experiments

System alignment

Tools

Custom microscope platforms

Job description

At AION, we're building sci-fi medical devices.

Our mission is to bring aging under full biomedical control. We believe this can be achieved through closed-loop hardware that reads and writes bioelectric states in living tissue using electromagnetic and acoustic fields - a control layer for cell reprogramming that chemistry and gene therapy fundamentally cannot provide.

We're looking for a cracked scientist to own cell culture and run experiments on custom microscopy platforms.

The role

As a Scientist at AION, you will:

• Own cell experiments end to end: cell culture, experimental design, sample preparation, imaging, data collection, analysis, and iteration
• Run ultrasound and magnetic-field experiments on custom microscope platforms
• Work directly with engineers to debug and rapidly iterate microscopes, fixtures, sample environments, and experimental workflows
• Build the controls, documentation, and repeatability needed to turn one-off results into reliable experimental systems

You

We value mission alignment, integrity, and ambition over pedigree.

• Deep hands-on mammalian cell culture experience and comfortable owning cultures independently
• Strong microscopy experience, including sample preparation, image acquisition, and quantitative analysis
• Comfortable working side by side with mechanical & electrical engineers; comfortable using coding agents to develop imaging and cell-stimulation sequences
• Mechanically inclined and able to reason about fixtures, alignment, motion, sample handling, and system tradeoffs
• Working understanding of optical stacks: illumination, objectives, filters, cameras, and the image path; optical engineering expertise is not required
• Experience with ultrasonics, acoustofluidics, magnetic-field biology, bioelectromagnetics, or custom instrumentation is a plus, not a requirement

Details

St. Louis, MO (on-site).

Equity for the right person.

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