Believer Meats, formerly known as Future Meat Technologies, is a cultivated meat company excited to scale to feed the world. Driven by a mission to ensure that all future generations can enjoy real and delicious meat, Believer’s technology and process will make meat accessible and affordable to all.
Believer Meats is a leading global cultivated meat company. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated upstream process engineer to join our Tech Transfer team. You will play a crucial role in transferring upstream processes (including media preparation, bioreactor cultivation, harvest, analytics, etc.) from Israel to new sites in the US. This will support various company goals including tech maturity (e.g. scale up and validation on commercial equipment), commercial manufacturing, and others.
- Train on our upstream process through close communication with our teams in Israel and Europe.
- Project management in collaboration with one or more external US sites where Believer needs to set up its upstream process
- Detailed planning of process flow, equipment and materials
- Authoring process documentation
- Execution of the process in new US site with local team (media preparation, cell cultivation, harvest, analytics)
- Writing and presenting reports on project status and individual runs/trials
- Frequent communication and coordination between Israel and US sites
Must-Have:
- Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, biotechnology, or related field
- 4 years of experience in bioprocessing, including the following skills
-Bioreactor operation
-Aseptic cell culture
-Basic cell culture analytics (cell counting, bioanalyzer)
- Pumping/filling/filtering liquids up to 500L
- Project management experience
- Willingness to run processes hands-on, generally high level of independence
- Motivation to learn new skills and equipment
- Excellent communication skills
- Flexibility to travel to Israel and/or Europe
Nice to Have:
- Graduate degree in chemical engineering, biotechnology, or related field
- Advanced bioprocessing skills such as:
-Aseptic closed systems and assemblies (weldable/sealable)
-CIP/SIP on stainless steel equipment
-Cell separation systems such as continuous centrifugation, ATF/TFF
-Media mixing, media development or media formulation
- Knowledge of bioreactor engineering and scale-up principles, such as kLa, CFD modeling, PID control, etc.
- Experience setting up new labs or reproducing processes in new sites
