Scientist: Microscopy

AION Biosciences • St. Louis, MO

3d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience with ultrasonics, acoustofluidics, magnetic-field biology, bioelectromagnetics, or custom instrumentation is a plus, not a requirement

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Equity for the right person.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed