Scientist II - Sr. Scientist, CRISPR Specificity & Genomic Safety
Profluent is the frontier AI lab for biology. Profluent builds powerful foundation models for all of life's molecules, unlocking solutions that transform medicine, agriculture, and beyond. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Profluent is backed by leading investors including Altimeter Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Spark Capital, Insight Partners, Air Street Capital, AIX Ventures, and Convergent Ventures and has raised over $150M to date.
Profluent is seeking a creative and enthusiastic Scientist II - Sr. Scientist to build and apply experimental workflows that characterize the specificity, safety, and developability of our personalized CRISPR base editing platform. This role will initially focus on establishing and scaling base-editor specificity workflows, including biochemical and cell-based approaches such as CHANGE-seq-BE and related methods for identifying DNA and RNA off-target activity. In the longer term, the candidate will spearhead off-target assessments for novel gene editing platforms such as engineered recombinases.
The candidate will work closely with protein engineering, cell biology, bioinformatics, automation, and program teams to generate decision-quality datasets that guide editor design, candidate selection, and therapeutic
