Job Description - Pioneer Labs - Microbiology Research Associate

Pioneer labs is engineering the first microbes that will be used on Mars. We are building an engineering platform that allows us to cultivate hearty critters that can grow robustly even in extreme conditions. We aim for this research to make biomanufacturing ubiquitous, reliable, and green — on Earth and beyond.

To do so, Pioneer is building a platform for polyextremophile microbial engineering. Our approach is to combine functional genomics and robotics accelerated evolution to rapidly engineer microbes that are tailored to suit harsh, unusual conditions found in biomanufacturing.

We are a nonprofit startup based in San Francisco, California. We do marsshot science with an agile, startup-esque team. Pioneer is incubated at the Astera Institute, and is a pilot project of Align to Innovate.

Research Associate Role

Pioneer is seeking a Research Associate to join the team as Employee #4 and establish our platform for polyextremophile microbe...