Conquest, Palo Alto Office
Conquest is building an AI-driven therapeutic development engine for cancer, anchored in high-content phenomics. We're not a traditional HTS shop — we care deeply about the richness of the biological signal, not just throughput. If you've spent time thinking about what Cell Painting or morphological profiling can tell you that a viability assay can't, you'll feel at home here.
We're a small, technical team, and we move fast.
What you'll actually be doing
You'll own the experimental side of our phenotypic screening platform. That means taking assays that don't exist yet and building them — not plugging into an established pipeline. You'll design experiments in oncology cell models, push them toward high-throughput, and work directly with our computational and AI team to make sure the data we generate is worth learning from.
A big part of this role is workflow automation in the truest sense: figuring out what a skilled human currently does at the bench, understanding why it works, and then re-engineering it so a robot does it reliably at scale. If your prior experience with automation was mostly operating someone else's system, this probably isn't the right fit. If you've ever looked at a manual step and thought "I could write a protocol that makes this disappear," keep reading.
You'll also have room to explore. We're genuinely interested in novel assay formats — live-cell, morphological profiling, functional readouts — and we want someone who brings ideas, not just execution.
This is a full-time, in-person role (5 days/week) in our Palo Alto lab.
Why Conquest
We're early. That means you'll have real ownership over what we build and how we build it — and you'll see the direct connection between your work at the bench and where the science goes. The leadership team has deep experience across AI, drug discovery, and oncology, and we're genuinely committed to doing this differently.
If you've been looking for the place where the biology is taken as seriously as the machine learning, this is it.
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