Basic Life Research Scientist

**Job Description**

The Schlissel Lab at Stanford invites applications for a full-time (100%) Basic Life Scientist position (3-year fixed term) that can be extended indefinitely. The Schlissel Lab recently opened (January 2026) and is seeking a professional scientist to generate research momentum in the lab, and to assist in training and mentoring junior scientists as they join the lab. The scientist will work independently in close collaboration with the PI (Gavin Schlissel) to build the intellectual and technical foundation of the lab’s research program.

Research in the lab draws on a wide variety of techniques from biochemistry, chemical biology, biophysics, developmental biology and immunology, and the research project can be tailored to the interests and expertise of the candidate. The only guiding constraint is that the research project should seek to identify and answer important questions about the extracellular behavior of signaling proteins. Current research...