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Conduct clinical trial site monitoring, including pre-study, initiation, routine monitoring, and close-out visits. Ensure protocol compliance, informed consent, participant protection, data integrity, and regulatory adherence. Manage study files, registries, vendors, CRF reviews, data queries, and serious adverse event reporting. Support employee training and coordinate designated clinical projects. The role requires approximately 60% overnight travel and a mix of onsite and remote work.

Performs independent laboratory experiments supporting gene therapy platform and cardiovascular preclinical programs. Responsibilities include mammalian cell culture, nucleic acid and protein extraction, qPCR, ddPCR, ELISA, Western blotting, sample processing, data analysis, protocol optimization, study documentation, inventory management, and laboratory safety. The role generates reproducible data, contributes to reports and presentations, and supports assay improvements and peer training.

Verify and maintain social service program listings, research and add new resources, respond to user tickets, use internal curation tools, and collaborate with the team to ensure data accuracy and platform support.

Conduct deep AI and quantitative research for electronic trading by pre-training Transformer and time-series foundation models on large-scale market data. Develop representations, objectives, architectures, distributed training methods, evaluation protocols, and model-serving components. Fine-tune models for alpha generation, pricing, market making, execution, and risk management while studying scaling laws, transferability, robustness, data efficiency, latency, and economically meaningful trading outcomes.

Build high-performance technology for AI-driven systematic trading, including market-data, backtesting, simulation, model-serving, execution, and monitoring systems. Develop low-latency C++ services, scalable research pipelines, and production ML infrastructure. Optimize systems for throughput, latency, memory efficiency, resilience, and determinism. Partner with quantitative researchers and traders to productionize strategies and operate reliable live trading systems.

Manage day-to-day lab operations, safety compliance, and inventory/procurement. Support mammalian and microbial culture workflows, equipment maintenance, EHS interactions, shipping/MTA handling, routine lab tasks, and process improvements. Provide occasional on-call emergency response.

Conduct research on metabolic regulation of macrophages and neutrophils during immune activation. Design experiments using cellular, molecular, biochemical, genome-editing, metabolomics, isotopic-tracing, immune-profiling, and transcriptomic methods. Analyze and interpret data, prepare manuscripts and presentations, collaborate with interdisciplinary researchers, and potentially mentor junior trainees. A Ph.D. in a relevant biological science, immunology and cell-metabolism expertise, scholarly publications, and strong communication and teamwork skills are required or preferred.

Conduct mammalian tissue culture, molecular cloning, RNA/DNA isolation and analysis, and biochemical assays supporting drug discovery, cell and gene therapies, and drug delivery programs. Maintain laboratory records, electronic lab documentation, SOPs, reports, and housekeeping standards. Collaborate across multidisciplinary research programs in an onsite laboratory environment.

Supports senior equity research analysts covering consumer broadlines and hardlines by building and validating financial models, conducting valuation and industry analysis, maintaining comparable-company data, gathering market and management information, producing written research, responding to client and sales questions, and presenting investment theses. Develops sector expertise, manages research databases, maintains client contacts, and travels occasionally for industry and client activities.

Conduct fundamental research on biotechnology companies, evaluating clinical data, scientific and commercial risks, competitive dynamics, and industry trends. Build financial models, drug forecasts, financial statements, and discounted cash flow analyses. Lead expert diligence calls, develop and defend investment theses, communicate research findings to analysts, and respond to institutional sales and client inquiries. Travel may be required up to 20%.

Conduct biotech sector research and due diligence, develop equity research reports, build Excel-based financial and valuation models, defend investment theses, respond to institutional sales and client inquiries, and support senior research analysts with special projects. Travel by car or air may be required up to 20% of the time.

Conducts equity research for the Industrials sector by gathering data, building and validating financial models, performing valuation analysis, maintaining databases and comparable-company analyses, and developing written research. Communicates investment theses and industry insights to senior analysts, institutional sales teams, and clients. Builds external relationships with management teams, suppliers, and customers, supports special projects, and travels up to 20% for research activities.

Supports senior equity research analysts covering the semiconductor sector through financial modeling, valuation, data gathering, industry analysis, comp sheets, and written research. Defends investment theses, responds to institutional clients and sales teams, manages financial databases, develops external sources, and contributes to presentations and special projects. Requires a bachelor's degree, 2–4 years of relevant experience, FINRA SIE, Series 86 and Series 87 licenses, and up to 20% travel.

Evaluates biotechnology drug pipelines and competitive landscapes through scientific literature, clinical data, conferences, and key opinion leader research. Builds Excel-based financial and drug revenue models, contributes to equity research reports, analyzes company news, supports investment theses, and responds to institutional clients. Requires strong oncology or immunology knowledge, scientific communication skills, and experience in biotech equity research or oncology-focused healthcare consulting.

Performs analytical development experiments and protein biologics characterization using HPLC, UPLC, CE-SDS, iCIEF, ELISA, DLS/SLS, and particulate analysis. Supports method optimization, qualification, stability, formulation development, and clinical in-use studies. Designs, analyzes, interprets, and documents experiments; prepares reports, protocols, SOPs, regulatory materials, and presentations. Maintains laboratory equipment and reagents, follows GDP and SOPs, and collaborates with cross-functional teams advancing immune oncology drug candidates.

Monitor clinical studies at investigative sites or remotely, ensuring protocol, ICH-GCP, SOP, and regulatory compliance. Responsibilities include site monitoring visits, source data verification, medical record and adverse event review, site staff support, monitoring report authoring, trial material development, SOP contributions, and eTMF documentation. The role requires CRA experience, preferably in oncology, hematology, or cell and gene therapy, plus proficiency with clinical trial systems and regulatory requirements.

Executes molecular cloning, DNA assembly, bacterial transformation, PCR, and in vitro transcription workflows to produce and assess RNA materials. Performs RNA purification, quantification, quality control, and sample tracking while maintaining accurate experimental records. Supports high-throughput production, workflow optimization, laboratory organization, and collaboration with molecular biology, discovery, sequencing, and bioinformatics teams.

Conduct research and algorithm development for federally funded multi-agent autonomy projects. Develop estimation, control, machine-learning, communication, and belief-management methods for agents operating under uncertainty and adversarial interference. Build reproducible POMDP and Dec-POMDP simulation environments, integrate computational components, evaluate methods through experiments, maintain research software and benchmarks, prepare publications and technical reports, and coordinate project activities with faculty and research personnel.

Conduct high-throughput antibody discovery, production, and characterization using display technologies, flow cytometry, laboratory automation, molecular biology, and sequencing. Develop methods, analyze and report data, manage research pipelines, maintain GLP-compliant records, coordinate across teams, present findings, and troubleshoot technical issues in a collaborative protein science research environment.

Supports development and optimization of microbial fermentation processes for recombinant protein production. Operates and troubleshoots shake flask and bench-scale bioreactors, prepares media and feeds, performs fermentation analytics, maintains reactors, and documents laboratory activities. Collaborates with strain engineering, downstream, and analytical teams on process development, optimization, and scale-up activities.

Conducts oncology clinical trial site monitoring, including routine, initiation, and close-out visits; verifies informed consent, protocol compliance, patient safety, and data integrity; manages study files, registries, vendors, and serious adverse event reporting; performs CRF review and query resolution; supports feasibility activities, employee training, and local project coordination. Requires frequent overnight travel across Southern California and occasional domestic or international travel.

Performs laboratory testing and translational immunology research on clinical specimens. Responsibilities include executing investigator-defined experiments, operating and maintaining laboratory instrumentation, monitoring quality control, handling laboratory animals, managing inventory, and complying with safety, infection-control, HIPAA, and institutional policies.

Conduct economic and financial data analysis, write statistical programs, perform literature reviews and econometric research, prepare charts, tables, summaries, policy memos, and publication materials, and maintain economic datasets. The role supports economists studying regional, national, and global economies, monetary policy, financial markets, bank regulation, and payments. Responsibilities also include proofreading, editing, and fact-checking research outputs.

Develop and optimize engineered microbial strains for recombinant protein production. Responsibilities include plasmid design and DNA assembly, sequencing analysis, microbial transformation and culture, PCR, strain screening, functional assays, cell banking, media preparation, laboratory maintenance, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration with bioprocess, discovery, downstream, and analytical teams.

Produce proprietary research and market intelligence using Forge transaction and pricing data. Analyze large datasets to identify private market valuation and liquidity trends, build benchmarks and indices, create reports, visualizations, and client-facing commentary, and collaborate with product, marketing, and client teams to inform investment decisions and thought leadership.