About PopVax

PopVax is a clinical-stage, Indian full-stack biotech using generative AI to build first-in-class and best-in-class vaccines for infectious diseases, targeted cancer therapeutics, and personalized autoimmune therapies.

Our mission is funded by Vitalik Buterin’s Balvi Fund, the Gates Foundation, the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Renaissance Philanthropy, and Good Ventures, with individual investments from Enveda founder Viswa Colluru and Tesla self-driving AI pioneer Dhaval Shroff.

We conduct our R&D; work and GMP manufacturing at our integrated RNA Foundry in Hyderabad, India, in support of our Million Lives Mission to develop vaccines and therapeutics over the next decade with the potential to cumulatively save 1 million lives each year.

Our pipeline includes a broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine, currently in a Phase I trial in Australia, first-in-class vaccines against Hepatitis C, Strep A and adult TB, as well as precision cancer therapies against pancreatic and liver cancer.



We intend to take at least 5 novel vaccine and therapeutic candidates into clinical trials over the next two years.

About The Role

At PopVax, most of what we work on is new: de novo designed proteins and therapeutics, engineered antigens for novel vaccines, mRNA, novel ionizable lipids and lipid nanoparticles. Some were designed on a computer only weeks before they arrived in the lab. Our protein design teams routinely change sequences, structures, formats, and formulations as they learn from experiments. Each iteration creates a deceptively straightforward problem: how do we actually know what we made?

That is where you come in.

We’re looking for a Principal Scientist to build the analytical methods to answer that question. More often than not, a method buried in an academic paper can be adapted. And sometimes the molecule will behave in a way that makes the obvious method useless, and you will need to work out a better one from first princip

📌 Principal Scientist (Hyderabad)
🏢 PopVax
📍 Hyderabad