Founding Bioprocess Engineer

Biomanufacturing was built around highly specialised facilities, complex equipment and teams of people manually operating processes that can run for days or weeks.

That model does not scale easily.

Anaula is building autonomous bioreactors designed to make biological manufacturing dramatically easier to deploy and scale.

Our systems combine advanced sensing, automated process control, robotics and software to continuously understand what is happening inside a biological process and respond in real time.

We are building the technology from first principles across mechanical engineering, electronics, controls, software and biology.

Our goal is simple: make bioreactors capable of running biological processes autonomously.

We’re looking for a Founding Bioprocess Engineer to own the biological and pharmaceutical process side of the platform.

You’ll:

• Define how Anaula reactors run biological processes

• Work directly with mechanical, electronics, controls and software engineers

• Turn operator judgement into measurable, executable control strategies

• Act as a forward-deployed bioengineer with the CEO

• Work directly with customers to understand their processes, scope pilots and help secure deployments

• Own the path from prototype through scale-up and towards GMP manufacturing

This is a hands-on role with ownership over the process, the machine and how it gets deployed with customers.

• Upstream process development: strain and media selection, feeding, aeration, light regime and yield

• Control strategy for pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, feeding and other critical process parameters

• Measurements, decision logic and operating limits required for autonomous operation

• Sterile boundaries, CIP/SIP and contamination control for long-duration unattended operation

• P&IDs, process equipment, instrumentation and utilities

• Scale-up from our current systems towards 400 L, 1,000 L and beyond

• Technology transfer and process packages for customer deployments

• HAZOPs, failure modes and process risk

• The roadmap from prototype systems towards GMP manufacturing

• Customer technical discussions, pilot design and deployment scoping alongside the CEO

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Owned an upstream bioprocess, cell line or pharmaceutical process

• 5+ years of relevant experience in pharma, biopharma, a CDMO or life sciences process engineering

• Strong hands-on experience with bioreactors and upstream processing

• Experience operating within GMP environments

• Worked across process development, scale-up and technology transfer

• Experience with P&IDs, process equipment, instrumentation and utilities

• Strong understanding of sterile processing, contamination control and CIP/SIP

• The ability to move comfortably between biology, process engineering and automation

• Enough technical depth to sit with a customer, understand their process and help design a solution around it

Relevant backgrounds may include MSAT, Process Development, Manufacturing Science, Bioprocess Engineering or Pharmaceutical Process Engineering.

• Deep understanding of upstream bioprocess fundamentals

• Experience with cell culture, fermentation or other biological production systems

• Strong knowledge of mass transfer, scale-up and process control

• Good technical judgement and comfort making decisions with incomplete information

• Strong ownership mentality

• Comfortable working directly with customers

• Able to communicate complex technical problems clearly

• Excited by turning technical capability into real customer deployments

• Build a new biomanufacturing platform from first principles

• Shape the bioreactor, not just operate it

• Work directly with the founders across technology and customers

• Own major technical decisions from prototype through deployment

• Help define Anaula’s future bioprocess team

• Build towards autonomous biomanufacturing at pharmaceutical scale