We are looking for a highly motivated Plant in vitro culture and transformation technician to join our “Plants & Transformation” team and help us get our most ambitious R&D project to the next level: Transforming and regenerating our enhanced plants.

The ideal candidate will need to have good scientific rigor and be comfortable with managing many parallel tasks. He / she will also need to be meticulous and have very high attention to detail, as from day 1 he / she will work on a crucial workstream to achieve results within demanding timelines.

Working at Neoplants, is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge research and impactful projects that can literally change the world alongside a collaborative and interdisciplinary highly engaged team.

Main missions (but not limited to):

• Perform in vitro culture of various plants, model and ornamental

• Perform general laboratory tasks: Media and reagent preparation

• Transform ornamental monocot and dicot plants

• Regenerate fully transgenic plants from transformed calluses

• Report advancements and challenges to the team

Required:

• Bachelor, or equivalent, DUT - in biology with 2+ years of experience

• Experience in plant tissue or cell in vitro culture and regeneration

• Extreme scientific rigor and attention to details

• Ability to work autonomously with little or no supervision

• Team spirit, good interpersonal and communication skills

• Good English understanding skills

Bonus if you have:

• Experience in plant transformation

• Experience with non-model plant species

• Experience in basic molecular biology techniques

⭐️ Shared values: Team spirit, Positive impact, Excellence, Humility

Why join us?

🌿 Gain a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge plant biotechnology projects with real-world impact and contribute to global innovation by collaborating with world-class experts in their field

🌿 Grow through permanent learnings in a a very collaborative environment with training opportunities and learn from the founder through regular updates on everything that happens in an innovative start-up

🌿 Participate in fostering team moments, such as our annual kick-off, offsite seminar, after-work, celebrations every month, team activities (e.g. escape games, climbing, sailing or even surfing)

🌿 Come work in our brand new Neolab, ‘The Seed’: A unique 1,200m2 space on two floors featuring a state-of-the-art wetlab, full-scale performance testing rooms among other high-end equipment, as well as open offices and great team spaces!

🌿 Enjoy great benefits:

• Competitive salary

• Transportation (Navigo card or bike pass): 100% reimbursed

• Lunch vouchers: 10€ per day worked - 55% paid by the company

• Health: Alan Blue (private insurance, 70% paid by Neoplants, applicable to your family) and access to Moha (wellness and mental health support platform)

• Healthy snacks and fruit in the office

• Your own Mac Book pro

• Cool team events & personalized little attentions all year long

Recruitment journey

1️⃣ HR intro & culture fit interview (visio)

2️⃣ Role-Related Knowledge interview (on site or visio)

3️⃣ Live working session (on site)

4️⃣ Leadership and Karma interview (on site)

5️⃣ Meet the team & visit the Seed (on site)

Sounds like an opportunity for you?

Join Neoplants and help us cultivate a greener, healthier future for everyone.

⭐️ We get a lot of applications, so don’t shy away but surprise us ;)

Neoplants values diversity within its organization and in its relationships with its stakeholders. Thus, with equal skills, we study all applications without any discrimination.