Senior Research Associate, Cell Biology & Assay Development

About DeepOrigin

Deep Origin is building ambitious science in a fast-moving environment, combining AI and physics-based methods with wet-lab biology to advance drug discovery. The people who thrive here are accountable, adaptable, rigorous, humble, and direct. Across roles, we look for:

• Ownership through to the result. An experiment isn't done until the data are analyzed, the conclusion is written down, and whoever needs it next has it.
• Judgment under incomplete information. You resolve what you need to know, commit to a defensible course of action, and revise when the evidence warrants it.
• Exacting about the work, unguarded about yourself. You hold data to a standard that survives scrutiny, and you drop your own interpretation when someone shows you better evidence.
• Transparency as a working habit. You surface problems while they are cheap to fix, and you explain your results so chemists, engineers, and computational colleagues can act on them.

About the role

We are hiring a hands-on Senior Research Associate to build and run the cell-based assays and engineered cell lines behind our drug discovery programs. You will work day to day with a senior scientist in R&D, owning bench execution while helping shape assay strategy.

Your core work: maintaining mammalian cell lines, engineering them with RNP-based CRISPR (knockouts and knock-ins), generating validated stable lines, and turning them into robust functional assays. The data you generate feeds directly into AI and physics-based compound design, so quality and reproducibility matter as much as throughput.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.