Scientific Operations - Associate​/Scientist

Scientific Operations – Associate / Scientist (Contract)

Location
:
On-site, Cambridge, MA
Type
:
Full-time (40h/week) contractor (3-6 months)
Pay
: $30-45/h (pay is based on a 40 hour per week schedule and depends on experience/expertise)
Level
:
Early Career (2–5 years industry experience)

• We’re looking for a hands‑on, detail‑driven Scientific Operations Associate to help keep our labs running smoothly as we scale.
• You’ll be embedded in day‑to‑day lab operations to support experiments, uncover edge cases in protocols, and collaborate with both scientists and automation systems to help build the infrastructure behind fast, reproducible science.
• This is a true doer role in an early‑stage startup. You’ll wear many hats, move quickly, and help turn messy, real‑world lab work into clean, repeatable operations that scale.

• Keep labs organized, stocked, and ready for daily experimentation.
• Assist with lab setup and teardown for protocols and workflows.
• Draft and maintain SOPs, protocols, QA/QC, and operational documentation.
• Coordinate staff scheduling, shared equipment booking, and lab logistics.
• Support EHS requirements, audits, and compliance reporting.
• Maintain chemical and biological inventories, wastestreams, and documentation.
• Help onboard and train visiting operators.

• Order reagents, consumables, and equipment; track deliveries and usage.
• Maintain accurate inventory to avoid downtime.
• Support equipment set‑up, maintenance, calibration, and vendor coordination.

• Assist with scaling, stress testing, and troubleshooting protocols.
• Support benchmarks to validate reproducibility and scalability across lab settings.
• Generate high‑quality, structured experimental data for deviations, and edge cases.
• Document critical experimental variables for robust handoffs to humans and robots.
• Capture tacit biological knowledge, from intent to execution.
• Be customer obsessed: initiate, support, and lead initiatives to deliver results to clients.

• Work onsite daily in Cambridge, MA.
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in a scientific or technical field.
• 2–5 years of demonstrated hands‑on lab experience with modern wet lab techniques.
• A strong desire to improve scientific workflows.
• Experimental design skills with a strong bias toward documentation, reproducibility, and iteration.
• Ability to troubleshoot protocols systematically, with attention to technical and human variability.
• Familiarity with digital lab tools (e.g., ELNs, LIMS, lab automation systems).
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Clear communicator and collaborative teammate.
• Comfortable working in fast‑paced, hands‑on lab environments.

• Startup or early‑stage experience preferred; comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration is a must.
• Experience with assay design, development, and optimization.
• Coding experience for complex data analysis and statistics (Python, R).
• Hands‑on experience troubleshooting next‑generation sequencing assays.
• Demonstrated experience using AI/ML tools in research, whether for experimental design, data analysis, or predictive modeling.
• Experience working with or supporting internal lab teams as well as direct customer‑facing work in partner or external lab environments.

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