Full-Time
Operations & Strategy Lead
Becoming
11-50 employees
AI-guided closed-loop mammalian development systems
No salary listed
San Francisco, CA, USA
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- A bachelor's degree in Biology, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Neuroscience, or another scientific or technical field is required.
- Two to six years of experience in consulting, business operations, strategy, venture capital, investment banking, or startup operations is required.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills are required.
- Strong project management capabilities are required.
- The ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment is required.
- Demonstrated understanding of laboratory safety, biosafety, and animal welfare best practices is required.
- Proven ability to create, maintain, and enforce standard operating procedures in a laboratory or vivarium environment is required.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail are required.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills are required.
- The ability to work independently while collaborating effectively in a fast-paced startup environment is required.
- Oversee day-to-day laboratory operations.
- Manage purchasing, inventory, equipment maintenance, and vendor relationships.
- Coordinate laboratory buildouts, expansions, and facilities projects.
- Improve operational systems and internal processes.
- Support safety, compliance, and laboratory infrastructure.
- Ensure teams have the resources needed to execute effectively.
- Drive high-priority initiatives on behalf of leadership.
- Coordinate cross-functional projects across science, engineering, and operations.
- Develop project plans, milestones, and accountability mechanisms.
- Conduct market and scientific research.
- Prepare materials for leadership meetings, partners, and strategic discussions.
- Assist with budgeting and financial planning.
- Track spending, forecasts, and operational metrics.
- Support fundraising, grant applications, and diligence requests.
- Build reporting systems and company dashboards.
- Help leadership make data-driven decisions.
- Support recruiting efforts across scientific and technical roles.
- Coordinate interview processes and candidate experience.
- Improve onboarding and operational processes.
- Help build systems that support company growth.
- Serve as a trusted partner to the leadership team.
- Help prioritize initiatives and allocate resources effectively.
- Identify bottlenecks and proactively develop solutions.
- Ensure important projects move from concept to completion.
- Experience at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, LEK, EY-Parthenon, Strategy &, or similar firms.
- Experience in biotechnology, healthcare, life sciences, or deep technology.
- Startup experience.
- Familiarity with laboratory environments.
- Financial modeling experience.
- Prior experience supporting IACUC, Environmental Health and Safety, or regulatory inspections.
- Experience managing projects and tracking operational key performance indicators.
Becoming.ai builds robotic systems with closed-loop metabolic control to sustain mammalian development outside the body, paired with AI models that learn how development unfolds under different interventions. Its core hardware delivers nutrients, removes waste, and controls gas exchange in real time, creating a controllable environment for long-running developmental data. The AI analyzes this data to predict developmental trajectories and identify interventions that shift outcomes, enabling virtual organism models. The company differentiates itself by combining hardware-enabled metabolic exchange with dynamical AI models to generate and study controlled developmental data over extended periods, rather than just analyzing static biological samples. Its goal is to enable long-term, predictable developmental studies that can inform regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and fundamental developmental biology.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
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Founded
2023
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- The July 2026 site says the system learns from real experiments in real time.
- June 2026 career posts show demand for robotics, bioinformatics, and dynamical-systems talent.
- If validated, developmental intelligence could reshape regenerative medicine and drug discovery workflows.
What critics are saying
- No 2026 funding, customers, or revenue announcements signal a pre-commercial science project.
- July 2026 hiring for research scientists and bioinformatics engineers signals heavy technical dependency and runway burn.
- If external mammalian development stalls, the core platform collapses before any defensible dataset exists.
What makes Becoming unique
- Becoming.ai pairs closed-loop robotic metabolism with predictive models for developmental futures.
- Its July 2026 website claims sustained mammalian development generates training data for virtual organisms.
- Founder Divya Dhar Cohen has led the company since January 2023 in San Francisco.
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