Field Application Scientist (xPloration)

Location: Onsite at the Durham, North Carolina office; 50%–75% domestic and international travel required. Office hours are 8am–5pm local time.

Salary: $119,000–$136,000 per year, plus variable compensation and target bonus.

Company

hirify.global provides pharmaceutical partners with antibody repertoires and screening technologies for discovering next-generation therapeutics.

What you will do

• Plan and execute onsite and virtual demos and technical evaluations for the xPloration platform.
• Lead customer onboarding and training, including workflow setup, experimental design, best practices, and results interpretation.
• Provide scientist-to-scientist technical support and troubleshoot challenging customer and partner environments.
• Develop protocols, SOPs, training materials, demo scripts, FAQs, troubleshooting guides, and demo datasets.
• Validate and improve xPloration workflows, use cases, and performance.
• Capture customer feedback and communicate actionable insights to Sales, Product, R&D, and Service teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, or a related field with 5+ years of relevant industry experience; alternatively, a relevant MSc with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience in a customer-facing scientific role delivering training, demonstrations, and technical troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture, cell-based assays, high-throughput screening, flow cytometry or imaging-based analysis, and/or molecular biology workflows.
• Strong experimental and analytical skills, including experiment design, data interpretation, variable isolation, and recommendation of next steps.
• Excellent communication, teaching, organization, documentation, and customer service skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 75% of the time.

Nice to have

• MSc or PhD in a relevant field.
• Familiarity with antibody discovery pipelines, single B-cell screening, and sequencing concepts.
• Experience creating scalable training, onboarding, troubleshooting, or application materials.
• Experience with Excel, GraphPad Prism, R, or Python for data handling and visualization.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with Sales, Science, Product, R&D, and Service teams.
• Annual base and variable compensation, target bonus, equity, refresh grants, and ESPP.
• Comprehensive health plans and immediate 401(k) matching.
• PTO, sick leave, paid parental leave, commuter benefits, wellness stipend, and education reimbursement.
• Inclusive workplace and equal opportunity employment environment.