Research Associate (Molecular Biology / Protein engineering)

Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. We’re entering the era of agentic science where AI models can design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results, but they can’t run the experiments themselves – that’s still a manual, months‑long process. We’re building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world.

Today, over 50 companies are already running their wet‑lab experiments on Adaptyv, ranging from some of the biggest biopharmas, to frontier AI labs, to dozens of tech‑bio startups.

Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse‑engineered into API‑controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical‑world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay ...