Scientist/Sr. Scientist, Spatial Omics Technology Development (Fixed-Term Contract) (Spatial Omics)

Location: Onsite in Palo Alto, California, 5 days per week. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Base salary: $128,500–$182,500 per year.

Company

hirify.global is an independent nonprofit research organization combining artificial intelligence and biology to accelerate scientific progress and study the causes of complex diseases.

What you will do

• Design and execute testing and validation plans for a custom in-house spatial imaging platform.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues with external vendors.
• Optimize spatial multiomic chemistry and sample-preparation workflows for human stem-cell-derived brain organoids.
• Execute end-to-end wet-lab spatial perturb-seq workflows.
• Analyze imaging quality-control data with computational scientists and drive iterative assay development.
• Track milestones and help advance projects from proof of concept through development and large-scale screens.

Requirements

• PhD in molecular biology, biochemistry, genomics, bioengineering, or a related field, with 2–5+ years of academic or biotechnology experience.
• Extensive experience in spatial omics technology and/or product development.
• Hands-on experience with custom imaging or fluidic systems and instrument troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with tissue or organoid sample preparation and in situ imaging-based assays such as HCR, MERFISH, seqFISH, RCA, or in situ sequencing.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, early-stage technology development environment with substantial hands-on troubleshooting.
• Strong collaboration, communication, project management, and documentation skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with tissue microarrays or low-input histology.
• Experience with image processing or spatial data analysis.
• Background in neuroscience, stem cell biology, or immunology.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside technology centers and investigator labs integrating experimental and computational biology.
• Work in a research environment with long-term funding and industry-like resources.
• Contribute to high-risk, long-term research without commercial pressures.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and external vendors.