Research Associate, Transcriptomics (Contract)

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Empress is pioneering mechanistic intelligence for drug discovery — helping R&D teams understand what their molecules are doing, what is driving activity, what liabilities may emerge, and which candidates are best positioned to advance. By integrating multi-omics, chemoproteomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, computational inference, knowledge graphs, and CRISPR-based functional validation, Empress turns biological complexity into clearer development decisions. Our platform gives discovery teams access to capabilities that would otherwise require years, specialized infrastructure, and rare cross-functional expertise to build internally.

Empress is a privately held biotech conceived by Flagship Pioneering, which brings the courage, long-term vision, and resources needed to realize unreasonable results.

THE ROLE

We're looking for a Research Associate II to join the Genomics team and own day-to-day operations of our automated high-throughput bulk RNA sequencing platform. The bulk-Tx platform is a core component of Empress's Integromyx platform, generating the transcriptomic d