Academic Graduate Appointee, Bioengineering and Advanced Manufacturing

LLNL•Livermore, CA

4d•$7,510 - $9,282•Onsite

About The Position

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is seeking an Academic Graduate Appointee to support research in the Bioengineering and Advanced Fabrication Group. This role involves contributing to the design, fabrication, testing, and characterization of advanced materials, microfabricated devices, and biomedical technologies. The position offers hands-on experience in a multidisciplinary research environment encompassing bioengineering, materials science, microfabrication, and advanced manufacturing. This position is within the Materials Engineering Division (MED) of the Engineering Directorate.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in bioengineering, biomedical engineering, materials science, chemical engineering, biology, or a related field.
Experience or relevant coursework in biomaterials, tissue engineering, microfluidics, organ-on-a-chip systems, or additive manufacturing.
Experience with hydrogel or bioink formulation and characterization.
Familiarity with 3D bioprinting, preferably digital light processing, DLP, bioprinting.
Experience with sterile mammalian cell culture and aseptic laboratory techniques.
Familiarity with biological and materials characterization methods, such as rheology, microscopy, immunostaining, cell-viability assays, or image analysis.
Ability to collect, analyze, visualize, and document experimental data using laboratory notebooks and standard data-analysis software.
Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate in a multidisciplinary research environment and contribute to technical reports, presentations, and literature reviews.

Nice To Haves

Experience with vascular tissue models, including endothelial-cell culture, barrier-function assays, inflammation, permeability, or coagulation-related measurements.
Experience designing, fabricating, or operating microfluidic and organ-on-a-chip devices.
Experience with DLP bioprinting, multi-material biofabrication, and development of cell-laden hydrogel constructs.
Experience with laboratory automation, robotics, multi-omics datasets, and/or computational analysis methods, including Python, R, or machine-learning approaches.

Responsibilities

Assist with the design, fabrication, and evaluation of bioprinted tissue constructs, organ-on-a-chip devices, and related material systems for bioengineering applications.
Prepare bioinks, hydrogels, cells, microfabricated devices, samples, and test structures for experimental studies.
Support DLP bioprinting of multi-material and multicellular hydrogel constructs, including vascular-like architectures.
Assist with sterile mammalian cell culture, cell encapsulation, device seeding, and maintenance of engineered tissue models under aseptic conditions.
Conduct biomaterial and tissue characterization using methods such as rheology, swelling analysis, immunostaining, confocal microscopy, and cell-viability assays.
Collect, analyze, visualize, and document experimental data in laboratory notebooks, technical summaries, and presentations.
Develop, refine, and follow experimental procedures in collaboration with scientists, engineers, and technical staff.
Conduct literature reviews and contribute to technical reports, presentations, and publications.
Perform other duties as assigned.