Strain Engineer

Strain Engineer Role Overview

Huminly is a pioneering company in the field of textile recycling, utilizing enzymes to enable infinite recycling of textiles. We're committed to improving textile-to-textile recycling from less than 1% to over 90% in the next 4-5 years.

As a Strain Engineer at Huminly, you will play a crucial role in developing our industrial workhorses that produce enzymes driving our core technology. Your responsibilities will include designing new genetic constructs, screening highly productive isolates, and leveraging your experience in strain development to unlock technoeconomic efficiency.

This interdisciplinary role is perfect for ambitious engineers eager to oversee ideas from concept to real-world application. Your day-to-day will involve building and testing toolkits of genetic components, executing high-throughput enzyme testing workflows, and collecting data on real-world testing.

We're seeking a highly motivated team member to work alongside our fast-paced, mission-driven team. Every improved strain you help develop will directly lower the cost of our process and propel us on our journey to scale and impact.

Requirements

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in engineering recombinant organisms to achieve multiple-fold improvement in protein production levels
• Success in developing and validating fermentation SOPs at 100+ liter scale
• Ability to manage multiple parallel workflows in lab at any given time
• Experience in standard analytical techniques involving plate readers and mass spectrometry
• Ability to leverage constrained resources to meet ambitious experimental timelines
• Prioritization of speed, efficiency, and creativity to deliver results quickly

We offer competitive salary and equity compensation commensurate to experience, along with medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage. Please note this role will require frequent standing and walking for extensive periods of time as well as repetitive motion and lifting of equipment weighing 50 pounds or more.