Company Description
Hexagon Bio leverages a genomics-based platform and understanding of natural product evolution to develop next-generation medicines for human disease. Hexagon Bio's algorithms identify gene clusters that encode the machinery needed to produce specialized metabolites that can be harnessed against human disease targets. Our unique platform allows us to produce new chemical leads based on these findings. We use data science, genomics, synthetic biology and automation to discover potent, evolutionarily refined small molecules and their cognate targets from fungal genomes, and apply medicinal chemistry when needed to optimize these molecules into truly transformative medicines.
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Job description:
We are looking for a microbial fermentation engineer to join our fermentation team. In this full-time, lab-based position, you will occupy a key role in our efforts to produce metabolites of interest in bioreactors with high titer, yield, and productivity and enable new and novel fermentation configurations that better induce and elicit microbial secondary metabolism. As part of the effort to improve quantitative performance indicators in fermentation, you will design, execute, and analyze research and development experiments in bioreactors, leveraging a wide breadth of process control and analytical technologies. As part of the effort to explore and exploit the full range of operational modes available in bioreactors, you will have the opportunity to configure and run canonical and non-canonical batch, fed-batch, and continuous fermentations, and in so doing, facilitate qualitatively higher-grade control of the physiological characteristics of microbes of interest.
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What We Offer:
The salary range for this full-time position is $120,000 to $140,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across California locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Hexagon Bio is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race, color, ethnicity, veteran status, religion, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, membership in an organization or any other non-merit factors.
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