Location:
Goa (our lab at Goa University) CTC: ₹4–6 LPA, depending on experience Type: Full-time, permanent, in office Target start: 1 January 2027

About us
Technoculture Research builds diagnostics for Indian hospitals. Our first product, Pwomise, is made up of a benchtop analyser, a single-use cartridge and risk software. It runs the first-trimester double-marker screen (free β-hCG and PAPP-A) inside the hospital where a pregnant woman has her scan, so her sample no longer has to travel to a distant central lab. Our lab is incubated at AIIMS New Delhi, and our Goa team built the product's readout. The role You will join our Goa team and own the hands-on immunoassay chemistry: bead loading, antibody concentrations, washing, buffers and reagent preparation. You start by running experiments designed with the founder. As you learn, you take over more of the planning, and the goal is for you to run your own optimisation work within a year. You report to the co-founder and work day to day with the Goa team. What you will do
• Run optimisation experiments to written plans: bead loading, antibody concentrations, blocking, washing, buffers and incubation times.
• Prepare and QC reagents: antibody–bead conjugates, calibrators and controls, with lot records for each.
• Run ELISAs as reference and comparison assays.
• Record and analyse: lab notebooks kept to good documentation practice, and first-pass analysis in Excel (mean, SD, CV, standard curves).
• Propose the next experiment from your own data,



and over time draft the weekly plan and protocols.
• Keep the lab running: inventory, reagent orders and equipment upkeep.
• Work closely with our electrochemistry team in Goa and our validation team in Delhi NCR. How you will grow
• Months 0–3, learn: run experiments to written plans; master bead handling and our workflow.
• Months 3–6, contribute: do the first-pass analysis of your own data and propose the next experiment.
• Months 6–12, plan: draft the weekly experiment plan and protocols, reviewed by the founder.
• 12 months onward, own: run an optimisation workstream on your own, with a path to Associate Scientist. What you bring (must-have)
• MSc / MTech in Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Life Sciences or a related field.
• At least 2 years of hands-on ELISA work after your degree, in a lab, company or research project.
• Careful, consistent pipetting and clean notebook habits.
• Curiosity and a habit of learning fast; comfortable asking questions.
• Working Excel skills. Good to have
• You have planned or optimised an ELISA yourself, not only run kits.
• Magnetic beads or antibody conjugation.
• Other immunoassay formats: lateral flow, CLIA, FIA.
• Exposure to biosensors. Why join
• Learn assay development hands-on, directly from the founder.
• A clear path from running experiments to planning them yourself.
• Help take a made-in-India diagnostic from the bench to the clinic.

📌 Research Associate, Assay Development (India)
🏢 Technoculture Research
📍 India