Orbillion Bio is creating premium cell-based meat products from heritage cell lines, directly sourced from farmers. They are overcoming the biggest bottleneck hindering scale up of the cultivated meat industry by providing scalable cell lines from different breeds. Orbillion Bio sources cell lines from the best breeds through their tight collaborations with farmers, and are using synthetic biology and high throughput screening to find cell lines that are superior in nutrition, flavor, and their suitability to grow in cell culture.
Overview
If you are interested in this position, please apply here: info@orbillion.com
About The Company:
We are an early stage cultivated meat biotech startup looking for a Scientist in Upstream Process Development and small scale bioreactors at our Pasadena, CA location. Driven by concerns around sustainability and animal welfare, we are developing cultivated meat technology for a healthy and ethical future of food. The founding team brings years of expertise from biopharma, synthetic biology and chemical engineering industries to the table. If you want to help pioneer a new scientific field, are thriving in finding solutions, and would like to work with a fun and innovative team – this is for you!
About The Role:
You have the unique opportunity to be part of Orbillion Bio R&D for cultivated meat. In this role you will work on the scale up of our various mammalian cell lines to bench scale and beyond.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Establishing mammalian and avian cell line platforms, including isolation of stem cells and primary cells from tissues and inducing differentiation, cell characterization to small mammalian bioreactor testing.
- Designing and validating cellular and molecular quality control markers and pilot scale-up parameters towards cultivated meat production
Required Skills And Experience
- Extensive experience in cell-line development, characterization and selecting high-performance cell lines
- Extensive technical knowledge and successful industry experience with stable cell line development, upstream process development and scaling up to small scale bioreactors. ● Experience working with liquid handling robots
- Experience working with small scale bioreactor systems
- Strong expertise in mammalian cell culture techniques
- Authorization to work in the US
Education requirements
- PhD in Chemical Engineering, Cell Biology, Bioengineering, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, or related engineering or life science discipline or 4+ years of relevant industry experience with a Master’s degree.