What We're Building:
At Medra, our mission is to use AI, robotics, and biology to accelerate life science research, with the ultimate goal of eradicating disease. We are building an Embodied Lab AI platform that helps scientists scale their lab work and generate orders of magnitude more data than before, whether to bring a new life-saving drug to the clinic or to train a ground-breaking biology foundation model.This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things.
The Team:
- We’re a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We’re collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!
- As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.
- Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don’t mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.
In this role, you will:
- Partner with cutting-edge biotech and pharma companies to scale their R&D and production through Medra’s autonomy platform.
- Create an effective feedback loop between customers and Medra’s engineering, deployment, and executive teams, making customer success repeatable and proactively solving future issues.
- Translate scientific needs into product requirements by bridging scientists and engineers, deeply understanding customer science and bottlenecks, and pinpointing where Medra can deliver the greatest impact.
- Partner with our customers and their leadership to define and execute overall strategy, manage relationships across customers teams, and drive measurable business impact - including occasional travel for on-site visits.
- Scope and launch new engagements with prospective customers and novel scientific use cases.
Let's talk if you have:
- A background in biology with bachelor’s degree, ideally with experience as a research assistant or lab tech.
- 2+ years experience in management consulting (MBB preferred), technical deployments, business operations, or other highly strategic roles within a rapidly growing company.
- Strong executive communication skills - able to synthesize complex details into accessible and precise insights.
- Ability to prioritize effectively and manage multiple work streams in a fast-paced environment.
- A proven ability to work and build relationships with a wide range of people, and influence cross-functionally without direct authority.
Bonus points for:
- Having a PhD in a biology related field.
- Past experience working at early-stage, high-growth startups.
- Past experience working with robotics, hardware, or software engineers.
This position is 100% in-person, you must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office.
We offer relocation benefits for applicants who need to relocate.
What we offer
- An opportunity to change the way that scientific research happens
- Fast-paced, creative, and collaborative work environment
- Significant equity ownership
- 401k
- Medical insurance and dental Insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Weekday dinners
