Associate Fermentation Scientist

Actalent
📍 Vacaville, CA, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 08, 2026

Job Description

Associate Fermentation Scientist
*Part time 20 hours/week, M-F (you choose hours)
Job Description
The Associate Fermentation Scientist joins a growing bioprocessing team and plays a key role in designing, executing, and interpreting fermentation experiments across diverse microbial expression systems. This role offers real technical ownership, including independent management of fermentation campaigns, contribution to process development strategies, and direct communication of results to both internal stakeholders and external clients. The position is ideal for a scientist who enjoys building systems and processes, and who is motivated by advancing client pipelines while deepening their own scientific expertise.
Responsibilities

+ Independently design, execute, and troubleshoot bench-scale microbial fermentations (up to approximately 50L) across bacterial, yeast, and/or filamentous fungal expression systems.

+ Own the full fermentation campaign lifecycle,...

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Job Details

  • Location Vacaville, CA
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date June 08, 2026
  • Application Deadline June 13, 2026