Title: Senior Scientist

Location:
Bengalore, India Workplace: In office at CCAMP Type: Full-time About Trace Health Trace Health is an early-stage medtech startup building devices for the toilet that passively measure biomarkers from urine using biosensors.

About the Role
We’re hiring our first senior scientist to build and run our Bangalore wet lab, owning assay R&D; from the bench to commercialization. You’ll be the senior scientific presence in India: you set up the lab, lead the sensor R&D; program, and manage a small team of researchers and interns. You’ll work directly with the co-founders and have real say over the technical direction. This is a build-it-from-scratch role, not a “join an established bench” role. What You’ll Do
• Build the lab: select, install, and validate core equipment, establish SOPs and safety practices, manage vendors and procurement
• Lead sensor and assay R&D;: from biomarker identification and aptamer characterization, through sensor fabrication and optimization, to real-world implementation
• Design and run experiments: plan studies in real-world matrices (urine) and with human subjects
• Support validation: work with the co-founders on concordance against gold-standard methods (LC-MS/MS) and on the data package for the pilot study
• Lead the team: hire, train, and manage junior researchers and interns, set weekly priorities, and review their data
• Document rigorously: build the lab notebook, data management, and QC practices that will support later regulatory and IP work, and contribute to patents and publications
• Be a technical voice for the company: brief co-founders, advisors, and partners on progress and risks, and help recruit the next scientific hires Who You Are
• PhD (or postdoc, or PhD near completion) in Biomedical Engineering, Analytical or Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.



Master’s candidates considered with requisite experience.
• Deep hands-on experience in electrochemistry and biosensing
• A track record of getting a biosensor or assay to work reliably: you’ve troubleshot noisy, drifting, or irreproducible data and know how to find the cause (e.g., surface coverage, reporter placement, reference electrode, fouling, storage)
• Experience supervising or mentoring students or junior researchers
• Comfortable with ambiguity and resource constraints: you make decisions with incomplete information, buy the right instrument rather than the fanciest one, and build SOPs from nothing
• Careful with data: clean notebooks, sound statistics, and documentation others can reproduce
• Able to work in person at C-CAMP, Bangalore (next to NCBS/GKVK). Target start: December 1, 2026 Nice to Have
• Direct experience with electrochemical aptamer-based (E-AB) sensors
• Experience with aptamers against small-molecule targets (e.g., steroid hormones), or aptamer selection (SELEX)
• Experience with sensor stability, storage, and reproducibility in complex biological fluids (urine, serum, saliva)
• Familiarity with assay validation, analytical method development, or LC-MS/MS comparison studies
• Experience setting up or running a lab, or working in a startup
• Publications or patents in biosensors or electrochemistry Logistics
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Location:
Bangalore, in person (C-CAMP)
• Reports to the co-founders
• Compensation: commensurate with experience
• Team: you’ll help hire and manage the lab’s junior researchers and interns

How to Apply
Email Harshit Chellani at [email protected] with your CV, a short note on why you’re a fit, and a summary of your most relevant work: the system you built, your role, the outcomes, and what you learned. Please be specific about the techniques and instruments you used and the targets you measured. Links to publications or patents are welcome.

📌 Senior Scientist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Trace Health
📍 Bengaluru