Synthetic biology jobs
Open synthetic biology positions — postdoc to industry — with employers that recently closed federal science awards listed first. Currently 56 live across 35 employers.
Senior Vice President of Regulatory Sciences
STRAND THERAPEUTICS INC. · Boston, MA, United States
Senior / Principal Associate Scientist, Advanced Cell Engineering
STRAND THERAPEUTICS INC. · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Scientist / Senior Scientist, Process Sciences and Innovation
STRAND THERAPEUTICS INC. · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Scientist in Protein Technologies Center - Cell Engineering / Molecular Biology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Professor in Quantitative Biosciences at the University of Tokyo
Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, the University of Tokyo · Tokyo, Japan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Chin Lab) - Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Zuercher Lab) - Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Jamali Lab) - Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Liu Lab) - Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Principal Investigators (All Levels) - Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Scientist - Photosynthesis Assay Development - Plant Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position
Department of Biology - TAMU · College Station, Texas
Scientist, Advanced Genome Technologies - Plant Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Rehm Lab) - Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (van Bijsterveldt Lab)-Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
TENURE TRACK FACULTY POSITION IN PLANT OR MICROBIAL GLYCOSCIENCE at UGA-CCRC
The University of Georgia - Complex Carbohydrate Research Center · Athens, Georgia, USA
Faculty Positions in Systems Hub, HKUST (GZ)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology -Guangzhou · Guangzhou, Guangdong (CN)
EMBL Australia Group Leader
Monash University · Monash University, Monash (AU)
Faculty Position in Applied Mathematics
Northwestern University · Evanston, Illinois
Full-Time, Tenure- Track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics/Biological AI
Department of Biology - TAMU · College Station, Texas
Postdoc within the engineering and production of catalytic bacterial amyloids in bacterial biofilm
iNANO, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University · Aarhus C, Aarhus (DK)
Faculty Positions in Sustainable Food Security (Open Rank)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · Saudi Arabia (SA)
Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Assistant/Asso
Brown University - School of Engineering · Providence, Rhode Island (US)
Assistant/Associate Professor
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons · New York City, New York (US)
Bio-ML Scientist (Metabolic Modelling) - Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire
Assistant Professor
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, California
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Bacteriology, UW-Madison · Midwest region
Assistant Professor in Biotechnology
American University · Washington D.C.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Lawrence University · Appleton, Wisconsin (US)
Assistant Professor positions in the areas of 1) Plant Biology and 2) Microbial Evolution
Department of Biology - TAMU · Texas
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor (Tenured or Tenure Track)
Bacteriology, UW-Madison · Midwest region
Assistant Professor-Tenure System - Plant Research Laboratory
Michigan State University · East Lansing, Michigan
Chemical Biology and Therapeutics - A Division-wide, Open-rank Faculty Search
University of Chicago – UofC · Chicago, Illinois
(Senior) Scientist, Plant Metabolic Engineering - Plant Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire
Assistant, Associate, Full Professor of Biochemistry (Tenured or Tenure Track)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biochemistry · Madison, Wisconsin
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Tenure Track) - Integrative Biology & Pharmacology
University of Texas Health Science Center - McGovern Med School - Integrative Biology & Pharmacology · Houston, Texas (US)
Research Assistant (Zuercher Lab) - Generative Biology Insititute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire (GB)
Research Scientist (Multiple Fields)-KIST 2026 Open Recruitment
Korea Institute of Science and Technology · Seoul (KR), Gangneung(KR), Wanju(KR)
Research Associate in Engineering Biology
Imperial College London · London (Central), London (Greater) (GB)
SD-26121 PHD STUDENT FUNGAL METABOLIC ENGINEERING
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) · Hautcharage
SD-26120 PHD STUDENT AI-INSPIRED SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) · Hautcharage
Scientist in Protein Technologies Center - Cell Engineering / Molecular Biology
St Jude Children's Research Hospital · Memphis, Tennessee
Seeking Global Talents at All Levels - SIAT
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences（CAS) · 1068 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055 P. R. China
Strategic Scientist, Outstanding Youg Investigator, and Postdoctoral Positions at CIBCAS
Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chengdu, Sichuan (CN)
State Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology Global Talent Wanted
The State Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology · Shenzhen, Guangdong (CN)
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in School of Engineering, Westlake University
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, WESTLAKE UNIVERSITY · Hangzhou, Zhejiang (CN)
Research Assistant (Jamali Lab) - Generative Biology Insitute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire (GB)
Postdoctoral position in Gas Fermentation
University of Tartu - Valgepea lab · Tartu (EE)
Postdoc position within the engineering and production of catalytic bacterial amyloids in bacteri...
Aarhus University (AU) · Aarhus, Midtjylland (DK)
Postdoctoral Fellow – Protein Nanowire Electronics for Wearable Sensors
Northeastern University · Shenyang, China
Postdoctoral Researchers in Mammalian Synthetic Biology / AI-Guided Genetic Design / Cell Therapy
Rice Uinversity Department of Bioengineering · Houston, Texas (US)
Postdoctoral Research Scientists - Materials & Devices for Life Sciences
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire (GB)
Faculty Positions Available at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology
Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Post Doctoral Fellow - Generative Biology Institute
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, Oxfordshire
Lead researcher position in AI-Embedded Synthetic Biology
French National Institute for Health Research (INSERM) · Paris, Ile-de-France (FR)
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The money behind synthetic biology
5 open federal and foundation funding opportunities currently pay for work in this area — browse them. Funded fields hire; that is why this board exists.
Recently funded employers hiring here now
- STRAND THERAPEUTICS INC. — $1.2M in recent awards · 3 open roles
Counts measured live from our funding corpus and the SBIR award record — not estimates.