Scientist, Cell-Based & Functional Assays

Lausanne, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

- Own assay robustness: controls, reference standards, troubleshooting, and the quality bar for what we report.

Adaptyv is building an automated lab thats let AI agents run biology experiments.
We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results.
We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world.
We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward.
We’re growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation.
agonism/antagonism, ADCC/CDC-type functional effects, T-cell activation, cytokine readouts).
experience developing cell-based and functional/potency assays — reporter cell lines, primary cells, flow cytometry, and the realities of making cell assays reproducible. - Applied industry experience.

But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process.
This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today.
ABOUT THE ROLE You'll build out cell-based and functional assays at Adaptyv — the work that proves an antibody or protein actually does something: activates or blocks a receptor, triggers signaling, kills a cell, or modulates an immune response.
Cell activation assays, reporter systems, potency assays, and antibody functional readouts are the heart of this role.
This is the most interdisciplinary of our scientist roles.
A new functional assay starts as bespoke science and has to become a reliable, automated product.
You'll guide and lead, but the value is in setting up real, working assays, not in managing.
WHAT YOU'LL DO - Develop, qualify, and run cell-based functional assays hands-on: cell activation and signaling, reporter-gene assays, potency assays, and antibody functional readouts (e.g.