We're looking for a Cell Culture Specialist to join our awesome team.

Your experience with mammalian tissue culture will make you an essential member of our technical team. You will conduct routine tissue culture, bioprocess development and media optimisation for stem cell growth and differentiation. Working alongside a brilliant group of scientists, engineers and specialists, you will support our journey towards large-scale production of cultivated fat.

At every step, you will play a huge role in shaping the future of food.

As a member of our R&D team, you will perform critical cell culture experiments and ensure the smooth, day-to-day operation of tissue culture at Hoxton Farms. You will work in our state-of-the-art tissue culture lab, supporting the entire R&D workflow with special emphasis on media and bioprocess optimisation.

You’ll gain expertise with cutting-edge equipment and analytical techniques in a lab environment that merges tissue culture and food science. You will contribute to the following areas:

Perform routine cell culture and cryopreservation
Optimise and test media formulations for diverse culture systems
Improve cell line performance in suspension cultures to enhance proliferation and differentiation
Adapt cell lines to conditions that support scale-up processes
Drive bioprocess development to improve cell densities in mammalian suspension cultures
Implement cell-based assays and validate media components using high-throughput techniques

You should have at least one year’s experience working in a mammalian tissue culture laboratory within academia or industry, including some of the following:

An undergraduate degree (or equivalent experience in industry) in life sciences or a related discipline
Mammalian stem cell culture and differentiation
GLP- or GMP-compliant tissue culture techniques
Hands-on experience with mammalian suspension cultures in shake flasks, spinner vessels, stirred-tank vessels or other bioreactor formats
Process optimisation to improve cell densities and/or differentiation of mammalian cells
Cell bank creation and testing experience
Media optimisation to improve proliferation and/or differentiation of mammalian cells
Enthusiasm, curiosity and attention to detail

Experience in any of these additional areas is considered a plus:

ATMP R&D or manufacture
Sterile culture media preparation
Laboratory automation
High-throughput imaging
Suspension culture of mammalian cells
Lab inventory management
ELN/LIMS

The benefits:

💰 Highly competitive salary (£38-40k per year)

📈 Stock option plan

🏛️ Brand new lab and office in Old Street

🏡 Pension plan (matching up to 5% + salary sacrifice)

🏖️ 25 days' holiday + bank holidays

🚑 Private health insurance

👐 Supportive and collaborative environment

💪 Being part of something amazing

Hoxton Farms is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces inclusion, diversity and belonging.

If you believe you would add value to our company but don’t meet all the criteria, we would still love to hear from you. We especially encourage applications from female+, LGBTQIA+, disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are underrepresented in the tech industry.

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