Role OverviewThe Lab Manager will build and run the laboratory operations that enable the generation of massive, high-quality experimental datasets for AI agents that predict human drug outcomes. The role involves owning the systems, equipment, supplies, and processes that keep advanced cell biology and automated workflows running reliably at scale.
What You Will Do
The Lab Manager will build and run Axiom's laboratory operations, enabling scientists and robotics engineers to generate massive, exceptionally high-quality datasets for AI models that predict human drug outcomes. The role involves helping to bring the new lab online, coordinating equipment installation, utilities, vendor services, commissioning, and operational readiness across cell culture, imaging, automation, and mass spectrometry.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate will have exceptional laboratory operations experience, with a track record of keeping complex labs productive, organized, and reliable as they scale. They will be able to anticipate what scientists need, spot problems early, and drive them to resolution, with obsessive attention to detail and strong judgment about how reagent handling, equipment performance, environmental conditions, and recordkeeping affect experimental quality.
Requirements
- Exceptional laboratory operations experience
- High agency and ownership
- Obsessive attention to detail
- Experience supporting high-throughput workflows, laboratory automation, or integrated robotic systems
- Familiarity with cell culture and the operational demands of primary human cells, organoids, or other advanced biological systems
- Strong planning and quantitative skills
- A talent for building practical systems, SOPs, and training programs
- Hands-on resourcefulness with instruments and facilities
- Clear communication and the ability to earn trust across scientists, engineers, technicians, and external partners
- Technical curiosity and excitement about building a lab where robotics, software, and AI agents help scientists run better experiments at extraordinary scale
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