Scientist: Microscopy

At AION, we're building sci-fi medical devices.

Our mission is to bring aging under full biomedical control. We believe this can be achieved through closed-loop hardware that reads and writes bioelectric states in living tissue using electromagnetic and acoustic fields - a control layer for cell reprogramming that chemistry and gene therapy fundamentally cannot provide.

We're looking for a cracked scientist to own cell culture and run experiments on custom microscopy platforms.

The role

As a Scientist at AION, you will:

• Own cell experiments end to end: cell culture, experimental design, sample preparation, imaging, data collection, analysis, and iteration
• Run ultrasound and magnetic-field experiments on custom microscope platforms
• Work directly with engineers to debug and rapidly iterate microscopes, fixtures, sample environments, and experimental workflows
• Build the controls, documentation, and repeatability needed to turn one-off results into reliable experimental systems

You

We value mission alignment, integrity, and ambition over pedigree.

• Deep hands-on mammalian cell culture experience and comfortable owning cultures independently
• Strong microscopy experience, including sample preparation, image acquisition, and quantitative analysis
• Comfortable working side by side with mechanical & electrical engineers; comfortable using coding agents to develop imaging and cell-stimulation sequences
• Mechanically inclined and able to reason about fixtures, alignment, motion, sample handling, and system tradeoffs
• Working understanding of optical stacks: illumination, objectives, filters, cameras, and the image path; optical engineering expertise is not required
• Experience with ultrasonics, acoustofluidics, magnetic-field biology, bioelectromagnetics, or custom instrumentation is a plus, not a requirement

Details

St. Louis, MO (on-site).

Equity for the right person.