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Merge Labs · 16 hours ago

Research Platform Scientist

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$165K/yr - $260K/yr

Merge Labs is a frontier research lab focused on bridging biological and artificial intelligence. The Research Platform Scientist will build high-efficiency and high-throughput experimental pipelines to enable rapid research program progress while collaborating closely with various teams.

BiotechnologyHuman ResourcesSoftware

Responsibilities

Partner with program leads and scientists to understand key experimental needs and workflows

Establish processes to enable high-throughput and/or high-efficiency experiments, including reagent production and readouts

Scope, acquire, build, program and validate instruments to support experimental workflows

Own the quality, reliability, and integrity of data produced by automated pipelines, including defining and integrating appropriate QC checkpoints

Collaborate with data science/ML engineers to integrate metadata tracking, computational design, and analysis into experimental pipelines

Collaborate with electrical, mechanical and software engineers to build custom setups

Conceive, design and validate ideas for how to increase experimental throughput

Serve as an integral member of the scientific team and contribute your insights to project design, execution and analysis

Qualification

Molecular biologyBioengineeringHigh-throughput pipelinesData analysisNext-generation sequencingProtein engineeringCell cultureExperimental designCommunication skillsProblem-solving

Required

Have a PhD in molecular biology, bioengineering, biophysics or similar field, or have equivalent experience leading research projects end-to-end

Have developed high throughput experimental pipelines involving molecular assembly, cell culture, next-generation sequencing and/or protein engineering

Love getting your hands dirty with equipment setup, code writing, biological experiments and data analysis as needed

Love learning new science and developing new capabilities

Have worked in a fast-paced biotech/techbio, ideally startup, environment and loved it

Have high agency to initiate and drive efforts, constantly ideate and look to make improvements

Have strong communication skills and enjoy collaborating with researchers to help them accelerate their projects

Have come up with creative or unexpected solutions to tricky problems

Company

Merge Labs

Merge Labs provides a single API to connect software applications with multiple third-party platforms.

Founded in 2025

San Francisco, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://merge.io/

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

Total Funding

$252M

Key Investors

OpenAI

2026-01-15Seed· $252M

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