Scientist: Microscopy

At AION, we're building sci-fi medical devices.

Our mission is to bring aging under full biomedical control. We believe this can be achieved through closed-loop hardware that reads and writes bioelectric states in living tissue using electromagnetic and acoustic fields – a control layer for cell reprogramming that chemistry and gene therapy fundamentally cannot provide.

We're looking for a cracked scientist to own cell culture and run experiments on custom microscopy platforms.

The role

As a Scientist at AION, you will:

Own cell experiments end to end: cell culture, experimental design, sample preparation, imaging, data collection, analysis, and iteration

Run ultrasound and magnetic-field experiments on custom microscope platforms

Work directly with engineers to debug and rapidly iterate microscopes, fixtures, sample environments, and experimental workflows

Build the controls, documentation, and repeatability needed to turn one-off results into reliable experimental systems

You

We value mission alignment, integrity, and ambition over pedigree.

Deep hands-on mammalian cell culture experience and comfortable owning cultures independently

Strong microscopy experience, including sample preparation, image acquisition, and quantitative analysis

Comfortable working side by side with mechanical & electrical engineers; comfortable using coding agents to develop imaging and cell-stimulation sequences

Mechanically inclined and able to reason about fixtures, alignment, motion, sample handling, and system tradeoffs

Working understanding of optical stacks: illumination, objectives, filters, cameras, and the image path; optical engineering expertise is not required

Experience with ultrasonics, acoustofluidics, magnetic-field biology, bioelectromagnetics, or custom instrumentation is a plus, not a requirement

Details

St. Louis, MO (on-site).

Equity for the right person.

hiring@aion.bio