At Umami Bioworks, we are pioneering cultivated, 'not caught' seafood by developing the production system for delicious, nutritious, and affordable cultivated fish, starting with IUCN Red Listed species that are difficult to farm and being driven extinct by human consumption. We are partnering with food producers to scale our cultivated seafood production system to provide people around the world with a stable, resilient, local supply of seafood free from mercury, antibiotics, microplastics, and ocean pollutants.

We’re on a mission to empower humanity to eat sustainably without sacrifice. We believe the only way to change how the majority of the world eats meat and seafood is to create real seafood - the most delicious, healthiest seafood available - without the environmental and animal welfare consequences of our current practices.

We’re a venture-backed biotech startup located in Singapore where some of the world’s smartest, most passionate people are pioneering a sustainable food future that is attractive and accessible to people around the world. We are united by our collective drive to ask tough questions, take on challenging problems, and apply cutting-edge science and engineering to create a better future for humanity. At Umami Bioworks, you will be encouraged to dream big and will have the freedom to create, invent, and do the best, most impactful work of your career.

Umami Bioworks is looking to hire an inquisitive, innovative, and independent MSAT - Bioprocess Engineer to join our R&D team in India.

About the Role:

We are looking for Bioprocess Engineer to lead our MSAT team to guide development of our continuous cultivation process to production scale and successfully transfer production to customer-operated sites. The individual should have experience in MSAT operations, troubleshooting, and successfully delivering bioprocesses to production scale. Ideal candidates are self-motivated with a strong ability to work collaboratively with production and R&D teams. This role will involve:

• Coordinating with the R&D team (or client for tech transfer of processes) to ensure processes are robust, scalable, and GMP-compliant.

• Serving as technical point of contact (PoC) for clients for technology transfer into pilot and commercial production.

• Ensuring that all tech transfers into production are aligned with GMP regulatory guidelines, including provisioning of SOPs sufficient to enable right-first-time and on-time delivery of customer tech transfer projects.

• Working closely with internal stakeholders (including R&D, Operations, upstream process development, and procurement) as tech transfer lead to support the transfer of new processes and products into in-house and client manufacturing facilities.

• Leading strategic resource and capacity planning for the site, including supporting fit assessments/gap analyses of equipment, facilities and processes.

• Utilizing technical knowledge to lead to process deviation investigations, impact assessments and reports.

• Coaching junior team members to deliver high quality technical input for transferring production processes to GMP manufacturing and building company capacity to deliver production facilities with increasing speed.

Education:

• PhD. in Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology or related field + 5 years or M.S + 7 years of relevant industrial hands-on experience

Experience:

• 8-10 years in MSAT and production with direct experience in scaling animal cell culture processes from R&D reactors (<50L) to production reactors of at least 1kL

• Demonstrated expertise in process scale-up and with successful technology transfer of multiple animal cell products from pilot to commercial scale

• Experience with application of cutting-edge technologies (perfusion or continuous processes) in manufacturing and evaluation of different manufacturing modalities

Skills:

• Strong understanding of upstream processes, process analytical technologies, and troubleshooting approaches for successful bioprocess transfers

• Capable of working within a diverse team of internal and external stakeholders

• Strong spoken and written English language skills.

Location:

• India/Bengaluru

• This role will involve a site assignment to a customer site in Penang, Malaysia for much of the 1st year to transfer processes and technology to an UMAMI customer.
  

You will work directly with other members of our small but growing team to do cutting-edge science and will have the autonomy to test new ideas and identify better ways to do things.