Living Carbon is a public benefit corporation with a mission to responsibly rebalance the planet's carbon cycle using the inherent power of plants. We believe that gigaton scale CO2 drawdown will only happen if solutions are both beneficial to the environment and profitable to landowners. We've developed a proof of concept photosynthesis-enhanced seedling and are working on scaling our production lab and commercializing our technology. We're backed by some of the most prominent investors in Silicon Valley including Felicis Ventures, YCombinator, and Chris Sacca of LowerCarbon Capital.

If you believe that climate change is the defining global emergency of the century and want to join an ambitious project that's working on a biological solution, we'd love to hear from you.

Your role:

We're looking for someone who's excited to be part of a mission-driven early-stage company. As our Senior Research Associate - Tissue Culture and Transformation, you will play an essential role developing tissue culture and transformation systems in woody species. You will be working closely with our scientists to assist in facilitation of tissue culture and transformation pipeline development, while helping carry out other experiments to achieve company goals. A successful candidate will have experience with plant biotechnology lab experimental approaches, with a strong knowledge of and experience in a plant tissue culture and transformation. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the company's strategic goals and think creatively about how to move quickly and solve problems.

• Please note: relocation costs will be covered by Living Carbon for qualified candidates.

Responsibilities:

• Design and conduct research projects relating to plant tissue culture and transformation
• Manage, maintain, and track production level amounts of cultures.
• Perform and design plant transformation experiments.
• Develop, optimize, and execute protocols in a thorough, independent, and technical manner.
• Maintain a detailed record of experimental data and analysis.
• Perform vital functions to improve overall lab efficiency, including media making.
• Timely communicate and be able to adapt to experimental workflow while developing new skills.
• Nurture the desire to work in an exciting and rapidly evolving work environment.
• Provide unique perspectives and collaborate to creatively solve problems as they arise.

Requirements:

• BSc plus experience or MSc in plant Biology, plant science, plant science, or related field and experience working with plant biotechnology systems.
• Extensive experience with plant tissue culture is required. Previous experience with suspension cultures is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability in transformation pipeline establishment and development is required.
• Proven capacity to manage multiple experiments simultaneously and familiarity LIMs systems.
• Fundamental knowledge of and subsequent application in plant tissue culture and transformation techniques, especially in woody species.
• Experience with optimizing media for different plant growth phases is desirable.
• Experience with cryopreservation is desired.
• Excellent organization, with strong oral and written communication.

Living Carbon PBC offers competitive compensation, and generous healthcare, dental and vision insurance.

Living Carbon PBC is an equal opportunity employer.

We believe the best solutions to climate change are created by diverse teams. Living Carbon is focused on building a multicultural and inclusive team with strong representation from the many diverse communities disproportionately impacted by climate change. As a public benefit corporation, ensuring solutions to slow climate change are widely distributed to all peoples is critical to the success of our mission.