Translational Biology Scientist - Immunology & Endometriosis

Episteme; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Disability & life insurance

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Episteme in San Francisco seeks a biologist or bioengineer to advance women's health research, focusing on endometriosis and immune diseases. You will design preclinical models, analyze immune signals, and help translate findings into diagnostics and therapies with robust controls and rigorous statistics.

You will work with interdisciplinary teams, sustain reproducible workflows, and contribute to study planning, data interpretation, and manuscript preparation.

Qualifications

• Expertise in reproductive biology, immunology, biomedical sciences, or a related field.
• Research in endometriosis or an adjacent area.
• Tissue analysis: histology, immunohistochemistry or immunofluorescence, and quantitative image analysis
• A track record of judgment and ownership: experiments designed and analyzed end to end, projects you proposed, methods you brought into a lab, or problems you solved without a playbook
• Experience running multi-step studies that depend on others (core facilities, collaborators, cross-disciplinary teams) and keeping them on schedule

Responsibilities

• Establish, characterize, and maintain preclinical disease models; document reproducibility and variability
• Design and run in vivo studies of immune-targeted interventions with appropriate controls
• Profile immune populations and inflammatory state using flow cytometry, histology, and molecular assays
• Generate tissue-level data that validate imaging measurements
• Analyze data with appropriate statistics
• Maintain protocols, lab records, and data in formats others can reuse
• Contribute to milestone reviews, manuscripts, and grant or partner materials
• Follow a structured research plan with defined tasks and milestones

Skills

Reproductive biology

Immunology

Endometriosis research

Histology / IHC / IF

Image analysis

Project ownership

Study coordination

Tools

Python

R

Job description

Episteme in San Francisco seeks a biologist or bioengineer to advance women's health research, focusing on endometriosis and immune diseases. You will design preclinical models, analyze immune signals, and help translate findings into diagnostics and therapies with robust controls and rigorous statistics.

You will work with interdisciplinary teams, sustain reproducible workflows, and contribute to study planning, data interpretation, and manuscript preparation.