Pow.bio is building intelligent fermentation solutions to advance the biomanufacturing revolution. We are a small team developing next-generation bioprocessing to change scale-up forever.

Join us to turn great ideas into great products.

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POW is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity. Pow offers competitive salary, benefits, and stock option programs. Pow is an early-stage startup spun out of a lab at UC Berkeley. We value creative, non-canonical thinkers, lovers of the planet, inventors of the future. In other words, you. 

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Lead fermentations and downstream recovery processes for a wide range of microbes.
• Design process development campaigns for fed-batch and continuous fermentation processes.  
• Coordinate fermentation scale-up projects. 
• Communicate, deliver results to, and build meaningful rapport with clients. 
• Assist in machine learning and data science efforts to solve a global scientific problem. 
• Troubleshoot dynamic and interesting scientific problems in a supportive team.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS + 4 years of relevant industry experience or PhD + 2 years of relevant experience. Degree is in chemical engineering, biological engineering, microbiology or closely related discipline. BS will be considered with 6 or more years of relevant industry experience. 
• Hands-on experience setting up and running microbial bioreactors at bench and/or pilot-plant scale. 
• Effective communication skills for presenting to team members as well as clients in a professional and thoughtful manner. 
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and collaborative work environment. 
• Strong knowledge of microbiology, microbial physiology, and cellular metabolism.
• Fluency in statistical methods and data manipulation. 
• Strong organization and time-management skills with an attention to detail.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Hands-on experience with bench-scale and pilot-scale downstream processing equipment (disc-stack centrifuge, column chromatography, TFF, lyophilizer, etc.). 
• Competencies:
  • Python
  • JMP
  • Fermenter control software, e.g. MFCS, FermWorks, DeltaV
  • HPLC, GC or MS
  • Design of experiment (DoE) methodology
  • Process control methodologies, e.g. Quality by design (QbD).