Careers

The Field Application Scientist is primarily responsible for driving and accelerating customer adoption and success with research technologies that enable discovery in the life sciences. Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to, user consultations, support, relationship management, establishing and managing contract research, market research for early adopters and community expansion. Some travel will be expected as the Field Application Scientist leads efforts to educate the market through demonstrations, workshops and seminars. The role will also involve identifying and collaborating with lead customers in industry and academia to design and deliver high-impact studies, and to research & develop novel applications for performing diverse tissue histology projects.This exciting position requires complex scientific problem-solving skills, efficient communication, and a passion for helping customers.

As an early member of the company, you will be an integral part of our team and leadership opportunities are expected to become available to you as the company scales.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Science – Ph.D. in molecular biology, bioengineering, neuroscience, cancer biology, pathology or related field. Experience with fluorescent imaging, immunolabeling, and handling of delicate & precious biological samples are strongly desired, along with knowledge of mammalian systems.
• Excellent Communication – Tailors communication to users with confidence. Effective presentation capabilities with ability to clearly deliver technical information.
• Scientific Writing – Aptitude to write grant applications, and publish content (blog posts, white papers, etc.) that resonates with users and enables an appreciation of our technologies and pipeline.
• Business Acumen – Continuously evaluate a variety of business development opportunities with diverse industry players and lead scientists in academia.
• User-Focused – Understands customer pain points, expectations, and needs; regularly brainstorms with team members to come up with solutions that help our current and potential users adopt our technologies and expedite research.
• Workflow Management – Sets clear, realistic, and time-bound objectives that align to business growth both short & long-term.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit – Excels in a fast-paced environment and thrives in dramatically changing the status quo with a novel solution.
• High sense of urgency for resolving customer issues.

Why LifeCanvas Tech?

• Impact millions of people’s health by developing and disseminating revolutionary tools to expedite discoveries in science and medicine.
• Collaborative, positive and proactive culture with the mantra to improve and advance our technologies
• Fast and dynamic environment to grow and lead.
• Have fun making your ideas become products and services.
• Work with the brightest minds.
• Competitive salary, health benefits, full insurance benefits, 401K setup
• Opportunity to receive a stock option
• Lunch Wednesdays, Fully stocked kitchen
• Paid maternity, paternity leave

Location: Cambridge, MA

Salary is commensurate with experience.

Please send your CV to brian@lifecanvastech.com.

The Business Development Director is primarily responsible for driving adoption of LifeCanvas technologies, facilitating deals and partnerships between LifeCanvas and other biotech and pharmaceutical companies, accelerating the growth of LifeCanvas’ CRO service division, and finding new business opportunities. Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to, lead generation, user consultations, support, relationship management, establishing and managing contract research, market research for early adopters and community expansion. Some travel will be expected as the Business Development Director leads efforts to educate the market through demonstrations, workshops and seminars. You will also develop sales strategy, identify key accounts and scale them through business development efforts.

Specific Responsibilities and Key Deliverables Include:

• Work closely with the products team, scientists and engineers to develop and manage new and existing markets, customer and item strategies, and related programs
• Develop strategic alliances, exclusive agreements and grow major customer accounts

• Build and maintain relationships with high-priority end-users and industry influencers to drive product sales
• Build and maintain relationship with existing distributors and identify and forge partnerships with new distributors

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a science discipline preferred
• 3-6 years’ experience driving sales and coordinating a team to broaden reach and enhance revenue
• Existing network in pharmaceuticals and biotech industries

Characteristics We Are Looking For:

• You are full of energy, adaptability, grit, and sincerity
• You’re excited about building a dynamic sales team to promote disruptive technologies
• You want your work to have a substantial & positive impact in this world
• You are solution-oriented; you thrive on solving problems and providing solutions
• You communicate with clarity and keep the team in sync
• You are all about follow-through and delivery
• You have a ‘no task too small’ attitude and top-notch work ethic
• You can work under tight deadlines with exceptional attention to details

Benefits:

• Medical/ dental/vision insurance
• Flexible Time Off – take the time you need
• 401k
• Paid Time Off
• Unlimited snacks and coffee
• Relocation Package

Location: Cambridge, MA

Salary is commensurate with experience.

Please send your CV to rhie@lifecanvastech.com.

Responsible for setting the Human Resources (HR) strategy and leading the technical activities required to create an engaging and high-performing workforce. This position carries with it the responsibility to recruit, hire, retain, develop, and mentor team members in order to grow their capabilities. You’ll also leverage organizational design principles and develop our structure, process, rewards and incentives, culture, and ways of working to be efficient, fun, and results oriented. Other tasks will include:

• Partner with the leadership team to develop a comprehensive strategic roadmap to building the People function to support the company’s growth.
• Collaborate closely with leadership and employees, understanding the business/people needs and developing and executing HR strategies and programming to support them.
• Provides performance evaluation and management guidance to managers including coaching, counseling, career development, and disciplinary actions.
• Employ data driven techniques, awareness of market trends, and technical solutions to determine critical needs, identify unique opportunities for people and culture development, and automate HR systems.
• Ensure administrative record keeping and employment practices are compliant with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Oversee compensation and benefits administration, ensuring that compensation and benefits are benchmarked to market standards.
• Participate in the investigation and resolution of ongoing employee relations problems, anticipate problems whenever possible, and develop, recommend, and initiate appropriate steps for resolution.
• Develop, prepare, generate, and analyze ongoing and ad-hoc special reports pertaining to employee personnel information and data.
• Keeps records of insurance coverage and personnel transactions such as hires, promotions, transfers and terminations. Prepare all required periodic filings to agencies such as OSHA and EEOC.
• Administers FMLA, STD, and LTD paperwork

How the Role Will Measure Success:

• Proven leader who can help drive strategy, partner with cross functional leaders while leading the technical know-how of all HR activities.
• Leads learning culture to attract, develop and retain top talent.
• Act with a start-up mentality being agile with people processes, while willing to do the tactical work necessary to support the team.
• Coaches the high-performance team to be agile across multiple functional areas to accomplish business goals.
• Savvy Communicator with local, global, and external partners to build trust, be a change agent, take decisions, and resolve conflict as it arises.

What You Will Bring to the Table:

• Professional HR education with thorough knowledge of employment practices regulations, ADA and COBRA requirements, typical hiring and termination practices and procedures, HR strategy, compensation systems design
• 7-10 years of Generalist experience across leadership roles in human resources. May include rotational roles as a specialist (i.e., payroll, benefits, learning & development, performance review). Start-up or biotech experience a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively work, influence, problem solve and communicate at all levels of the organization.
• Proven track record in people management with demonstrative team-building and collaboration skills.
• Advanced in Electronic recruiting.
• Proven track record of establishing processes and implementing a goals and objectives based review system.
• Strong business acumen with an ability to mesh business needs with technical competencies

Why LifeCanvas Tech?

• Impact millions of people’s health by developing and disseminating revolutionary tools to expedite discoveries in science and medicine.
• Collaborative, positive and proactive culture with the mantra to improve and advance our technologies.
• Fast and dynamic environment to grow and lead.
• Have fun making your ideas become products and services.
• Work with the brightest minds.
• Health benefits, full insurance benefits, 401K setup.
• Lunch Wednesdays, Fully stocked kitchen
• Hybrid office model

To apply, please submit your CV to rhie@lifecanvastech.com.

As part of our Imaging team, you will be applying your skills broadly to support and market our optical imaging equipment and imaging services.

The Imaging Application Engineer is responsible for performing on-site installation, servicing and repair of our imaging equipment and systems. You will also instruct customers in operation and maintenance of the system. As the company liaison with customers, you will provide support on administrative and technical matters for assigned projects. Cultivating and developing positive working relationships with customers, system users and company personnel are also expected. Travel will be frequent, sometimes on short notice, to customer sites to install, check-in and general service, as well as attend conferences and trade shows. Travel is expected to be approximately 16 weeks/year.

Our Imaging Application Engineer will also help drive sales process including initial leads and opportunities, price and delivery of quotations, as well as closely working with the marketing team to create up to date promotional materials and technical sheets. You will also attend trade shows and other events as the company representative as required. As one of our early hires to the company, you will be an integral part of our imaging team and leadership opportunities are almost expected to become available to you as the company scales. You will have all the training including tissue processing , imaging, and installation in the headquarter in Cambridge, MA. After the training, you may have the flexibility of relocating to the west coast and working remotely.

What we are looking for:

• Typically requires a Bachelor, Master, or equivalent experience in Electrical, Biomedical, Mechanical, or Optical Engineering
• 2-5 years hands-on technical experience installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and using optical microscopy systems is a plus
• In depth understanding and application of principles, concepts, practices and market standards in optics and light sheet imaging systems is a plus
• Proven ability to work successfully as an individual contributor or as part of a team
• Ability to deal effectively with customers
• Solid communication skills, able to converse readily in English, both written and verbal

Characteristics we are looking for:

• You’re full of energy, adaptability, grit, and sincerity
• You are solution-oriented; your job often entails solving a problem and providing a solution
• You communicate with clarity and keep the team in sync
• You are all about follow-through and delivery
• You have a ‘no task too small’ attitude and top-notch work ethic
• You are able to work under tight deadlines with exceptional attention to details

Why LifeCanvas Tech?

• Impact millions of people’s health by developing and disseminating revolutionary tools to expedite discoveries in science and medicine.
• Collaborative, positive and proactive culture with the mantra to improve and advance our technologies
• Fast and dynamic environment to grow and lead.
• Have fun making your ideas become products and services.
• Work with the brightest minds.
• Competitive salary, health benefits, full insurance benefits, 401K setup
• Opportunity to earn a stock option
• Lunch Wednesdays, Fully stocked kitchen
• Paid maternity, paternity leave

Location: Cambridge, MA

Salary is commensurate with experience.

Please send your CV to rhie@lifecanvastech.com.

As a Junior Research Associate, you will join a team of senior engineers, scientists, and computer scientists focused on developing and expanding our tissue processing and imaging product pipeline and providing high quality 3D image data to customers via in-house operation of our flagship systems: SmartBatch+ and SmartSPIM. Key responsibilities will include benchwork and execution of state-of-the-art tissue processing systems, imaging, and artificial intelligence algorithms to quantify tissue image data and providing comprehensive on-site installations, remote training & technical support for our end users to further the research efforts of world-class scientists in bioengineering, neuroscience, therapeutic discovery and related fields across the globe. Travel may occasionally be required when necessary.

There will be ample opportunities to be promoted to a senior role based on your performance. You will also be working with world-class researchers in both academia and industry on Bioengineering, Drug Discovery, Oncology and Neuroscience projects across the nation and beyond.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or relevant biological sciences
• Prior experience at the bench designing experiments and protocols a plus
• A strong interest in fast-growing life sciences startup or environment
• Imaging experience a plus

Characteristics we are looking for:

• You are energetic, adaptable, tenacious, and sincere
• You want your work to have a positive impact
• You are solution-oriented: enjoy solving problems and providing solutions
• You communicate with clarity and can work in sync with the LifeCanvas team
• You are about follow-through and delivery
• You have a ‘no task too small’ attitude and impeccable work ethic
• You are able to work under tight deadlines with exceptional attention to details

Why LifeCanvas Tech?

• Impact millions of people’s health by developing and disseminating revolutionary tools to expedite discoveries in science and medicine
• Collaborative, positive and proactive culture with the mantra to improve and advance our technologies
• Fast and dynamic environment to grow and lead
• Have fun making your ideas become products and services
• Work with the brightest minds
• Health benefits, 401K setup, Lunch Wednesdays, Fully-stocked kitchen

To apply, please submit your CV to rhie@lifecanvastech.com.

What you will be doing:

• Manage day-to-day accounting operations, including the general ledger, revenue recognition, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, commissions, cash management, equity accounting and tax.
• Own the financial close process and preparation of financial statements and supporting schedules to deliver accurate and timely results to the leadership team.
• Identify gaps and implement improved accounting systems. Define and own the migration from QuickBooks to NetSuite within the first year.
• Build stage appropriate roadmap to implement and improve processes and controls to scale the accounting function; safeguard assets as well as monitor their consistent application.
• Ensure compliances with all federal, state, and local corporate income, payroll and other applicable taxes and licenses.
• Oversee and support all administrative duties in the office.
• Develop office policies and procedures, and ensure they are implemented appropriately.
• Provide support as liaison with external bookkeeping and finance firms.
• Manage onboarding of new employees.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Finance and Accounting
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and ASC606; CPA preferred
• Experience working for a rapid growth, startup environment, while also understanding and driving towards what’s needed to operate as a mid-sized enterprise
• Desire to roll-up your sleeves, prioritize work, execute plans, and drive deliverables
• Technically proficient with Netsuite, Bill.com, Point Purchasing, or similar systems
• Effective oral and written communication skills, the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Proven ability to hire, manage, and mentor high-performing teams
• Collaborative working style with colleagues across the organization while confident to make and own critical decisions
• Results and solutions-oriented self-starter mentality
• Experience scaling accounting functions and systems for a growth-stage biotech startup a plus
• Meticulous attention to detail, highly organized and transparent, and a strong communicator – able to present finance information clearly and concisely

Why LifeCanvas Tech?

• Impact millions of people’s health by developing and disseminating revolutionary tools to expedite discoveries in science and medicine
• Fast and dynamic environment to grow and lead
• Comprehensive health+ welfare package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short-term, Long-term Disability Insurances, 401k plan
• We offer flexible time off to rest and recharge including Winter Break (time off between Christmas and New Year’s for most roles depending on customer demand)
• Fully stocked kitchen with fruits, snacks and coffee and Wednesday lunch

Location: Cambridge, MA

Salary is commensurate with experience.

Please send your CV to rhie@lifecanvastech.com.