Job Posting for Stem Cell Technician (Cell Culture and Manufacturing)

Intake: Rolling with Jan 30, 2026 deadline.

Salary: 55-60k CAD (adjusted based on experience and qualifications)

Benefits: Extensive benefits plan that covers health and dental care and paid vacation days

Term: In-person; full-time

Schedule: Weekday, occasional weekends as needed

Submission Requirements (IMPORTANT)

Please attach a cover letter that highlights your experience and why you would be a good fit. Applications without a cover letter will not be reviewed.

Stem Cell Technician (Cell Culture and Manufacturing)

About Myo Palate

Myo Palate is a cellular agriculture company developing sustainable meat products. We grow animal cells to produce meat, without raising or harvesting entire animals.

We are a team of scientists, engineers, and food lovers applying modern biotechnology to make meat more sustainable and accessible.

About the role

We are hiring a Stem Cell Technician to support our cell manufacturing and R&D efforts. In this role, you will run day-to-day mammalian cell culture work, maintain cell banks, prepare media and reagents, and generate high quality data to support scale-up and product development.

This is a hands-on, on-site lab role with a strong focus on sterile technique, documentation, and consistency.

What you will do

Cell culture and cell banking

• Maintain healthy mammalian cell cultures, including thawing, passaging, seeding, feeding, counting, and monitoring morphology.
• Generate and maintain cell banks, including cryopreservation, labeling, storage, and chain-of-custody.
• Track cell line history, passage number, confluency, growth performance, and deviations.

Media and reagent preparation

• Prepare sterile media, buffers, and supplements from powders and concentrates.
• Aliquot, label, store, and manage expiry of reagents, growth factors, and consumables.
• Support ongoing optimization by preparing experiment-specific formulations under guidance.

Assays and quality checks

• Perform routine QC checks to ensure culture health and identity, such as viability, cell counts, and contamination checks.
• Execute basic cellular and molecular biology assays as needed (example: RNA extraction and RT-qPCR).
• Document results clearly and flag issues early (example: growth shifts, contamination risk, inconsistent assay outcomes).

Documentation and lab operations

• Maintain accurate records in an ELN and or batch records, including calculations, raw data, and observations.
• Follow SOPs, aseptic technique, and safety procedures.
• Clean and organize workspaces, restock consumables, and support inventory management and ordering.
• Assist with equipment upkeep and logs for incubators, biosafety cabinets, centrifuges, freezers, and microscopes (example: cleaning schedules, temperature checks, calibration coordination).

Collaboration

• Communicate experiment status and data to scientists in a timely way.
• Participate in team meetings, help troubleshoot routine issues, and suggest process improvements.

What we are looking for (required)

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, cell biology, bioengineering, biotechnology, or a related field.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience culturing mammalian cells (industry or academic).
• Strong sterile technique and comfort working independently at a biosafety cabinet.
• Experience preparing media and reagents and following written protocols accurately.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, especially for labeling, traceability, and recordkeeping.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• Experience with stem cells (maintenance, expansion, differentiation).
• Experience with contamination prevention and detection (example: mycoplasma testing workflows).
• Familiarity with manufacturing-style documentation (batch records, controlled docs, deviation tracking) or GMP principles.
• Experience with additional assays (examples: flow cytometry, immunostaining, ELISA, Western blot, microscopy).
• Comfort summarizing data in Excel and or basic scripting in R or Python.

Working style and expectations

• You are consistent, careful, and comfortable with repetitive tasks that require precision.
• You keep clean records and take ownership of your bench space, samples, and timelines.
• You thrive in a fast-moving environment and can adapt when priorities shift.