Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Technician with exceptional rigor and organizational skills to support and optimize our laboratory operations. You will play a central role in ensuring high standards of reproducibility, reliability, and operational efficiency across the discovery pipeline, from microbial culture to compound screening and analytics.

This role is ideal for someone with strong technical command of core microbiology and molecular biology techniques, combined with a genuine interest in team-based project coordination and workflow structuring. We are especially looking for someone with at least 5 years of lab experience, and eager to optimize experimental practices as we transition from R&D to pilot-scale industrial operations.

You will act as both a mentor and operational right hand to the Production team Lead Nadège, helping steer and support the six-person production team.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure high-quality execution of lab protocols (microbiology, molecular biology, analytics, etc.) with strong attention to detail

• Standardize, document, and optimize key procedures in collaboration with scientists and project leads

• Contribute to the design and maintenance of lab organization systems (sample tracking, reagent inventory, instrument readiness, etc.)

• Play a key role in structuring operational processes to support scale-up of the discovery platform

• Participate in the project designed for streamline workflows optimization, by using Lean six sigma and continuous improvement techniques to increase the efficiency, reduce variability, and improve traceability and visibility

• Assist in training junior technicians and enforcing lab best practices

• Participate in internal quality control and reproducibility monitoring efforts

Requirements

• Experience: Minimum 5 years of lab experience, ideally in biotech, pharma, or industrial R&D environments

• Education: BTS, DUT, or equivalent in biotechnology, analytical chemistry, microbiology, or related field

• Technical excellence: Robust hands-on experience across the microbial production pipeline, including isolation and transformation of strains, molecular biology workflows (DNA extraction, PCR, sequencing), cloning and fermentation, and organic extraction of microbial cultures to recover bioactive small molecules.

• Analytical & Process mindset: continuous improvement, or lab QA/QC processes

• Autonomy & precision: Proven ability to deliver clean, reproducible results in a fast-paced setting

• Communication: Clear, concise communicator; comfortable documenting processes in French or English

• Adaptability: Comfortable working in a dynamic startup environment with evolving priorities

Bonus 

• Familiarity with Lean or Six Sigma principles,

• Openness to potential mobility depending on our future site (2027)

• Initial screening call

• On-site technical interview with a case study

• Final interview (culture fit & HR) followed by a team lunch