Careers at Cora Science

About the role

This is a hands-on client-services role for someone who can make customers feel looked after without guessing, overpromising, or losing the operating detail behind a request.

You will work across customers, business development, sample receiving, laboratory operations, quality, and billing to turn phone and email questions into complete records, clear next actions, and reliable follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer phone and email queues, respond promptly to routine questions, and route scientific, quality, or commercial decisions to the right owner.
• Help customers navigate test options, quotes, sample-submission requirements, order status, turnaround expectations, report delivery, and account questions using approved information.
• Document requests, commitments, discrepancies, escalations, and next actions accurately in the laboratory's customer, order, and tracking systems.
• Coordinate with sample receiving, scientists, quality, business development, and billing to resolve missing information, sample holds, report questions, and service failures without dropping the handoff.
• Identify recurring customer friction and improve response templates, internal instructions, FAQs, and handoff processes with the teams that own them.

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of customer service, client services, order coordination, sales support, or account support experience in a laboratory, scientific, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, regulated-service, or similarly detail-sensitive environment, or equivalent experience.
• Clear, professional written and verbal communication across phone and email, including the judgment to explain what is known, confirm what is not, and escalate rather than guess.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple active requests, enter information accurately, follow documented procedures, protect confidential information, and close the loop on commitments.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with analytical testing, contract laboratories, food, dietary supplements, botanicals, consumer products, or another regulated technical service.
• Experience with a LIMS, CRM, order-entry platform, ticketing system, sample accessioning workflow, customer portal, quotes, certificates of analysis, or technical reports.
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 17025, cGMP, controlled documents, turnaround tracking, complaint handling, or service-recovery workflows.

First 90 days

• You understand the laboratory's services, sample-submission flow, common customer questions, communication boundaries, escalation paths, and client-services systems.
• You handle routine customer requests with accurate records, timely follow-up, and clean handoffs while knowing when to involve technical, quality, commercial, or billing owners.
• The shared queue has fewer missed follow-ups and incomplete requests, and at least one recurring source of customer friction has a documented improvement in progress.

Who this role is not for

• Someone who measures customer service by how quickly a conversation ends rather than whether the request is resolved correctly.
• Someone willing to promise methods, results, turnaround times, pricing, or technical interpretations without confirmation from the responsible owner.
• Someone who resists careful data entry, documentation, repetitive follow-up, or calm communication when a customer is frustrated.

About the role

This is an entry-level, cross-department laboratory role for someone who wants to build broad technical fundamentals while helping scientists keep routine work moving. You will train on approved procedures and contribute wherever the laboratory needs careful sample preparation, testing support, equipment readiness, records, and follow-through.

Assignments may span analytical chemistry, microbiology, shared sample-preparation, stability, and research-support workflows. The role is closer to a laboratory technician than an independent scientist: success means executing trained work reliably, protecting sample identity and data integrity, and escalating anything unusual with useful evidence.

Responsibilities

• Receive, label, stage, prepare, and track samples, standards, reagents, media, consumables, and glassware according to controlled procedures and chain-of-custody requirements.
• Perform trained routine laboratory tasks across departments, including weighing, pipetting, dilution, solution preparation, extraction, filtration, aseptic preparation, and other approved sample-preparation or testing steps.
• Set up, clean, check, and document basic laboratory equipment and work areas, and support instrument sequences or testing workflows under the direction of trained scientific staff.
• Maintain complete, contemporaneous worksheets, LIMS entries, inventories, and handoff records, and promptly escalate sample discrepancies, QC failures, equipment issues, deviations, or mistakes.
• Support method verification or validation experiments, stability and research tasks, proficiency work, cross-training, and practical improvements to shared laboratory workflows as your competency grows.

Required qualifications

• Associate's or bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology, biochemistry, microbiology, food science, laboratory science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and hands-on laboratory experience.
• Foundational laboratory experience through coursework, academic research, an internship, a co-op, or employment, including careful weighing, pipetting, dilution, solution preparation, labeling, or comparable bench skills.
• Ability to follow controlled procedures, perform routine calculations, handle chemical or biological materials safely, document work clearly, and ask for help rather than guess or work beyond your training.

Preferred qualifications

• Up to 2 years of experience in a testing, research, quality, academic, clinical, manufacturing, or production laboratory.
• Exposure to HPLC or UHPLC, ICP-MS sample preparation, microbiology, stability testing, LIMS, sample accessioning, or similar laboratory workflows; breadth is welcome, but experience in every area is not expected.
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 17025, cGMP, GLP, controlled documents, quality controls, or work with botanical, dietary supplement, food, consumer-product, pharmaceutical, or other complex samples.

First 90 days

• You have completed core safety, quality-system, chain-of-custody, documentation, and cross-department training for your initial assignments.
• You can independently execute assigned routine preparation or testing tasks within your demonstrated scope, with accurate records, acceptable QC, and reliable turnaround.
• You communicate clean handoffs, recognize and escalate unusual results or conditions, and have contributed one practical improvement to a shared laboratory workflow or instruction.

Who this role is not for

• Someone who wants to stay in one narrow specialty or take independent research ownership before mastering routine bench, documentation, and quality fundamentals.
• Someone who is casual about sample identity, labeling, pipetting, calculations, cleanliness, chain of custody, or contemporaneous records.
• Someone willing to hide an error, work outside demonstrated training, or keep going when a sample, result, or instrument condition does not make sense.

About the role

This is an entry-level bench role for an early-career scientist who wants to learn how high-quality liquid chromatography work is performed in a practical testing laboratory. You will train on established methods and build independence across sample preparation, standards, instrument operation, first-level data review, and routine troubleshooting.

The work supports botanical, dietary supplement, food, and consumer-product matrices within the lab's active scope. Success here depends on careful execution, traceable records, curiosity, and knowing when to ask for help; you are not expected to arrive as a method-development expert.

Responsibilities

• Prepare mobile phases, standards, quality controls, and sample extracts accurately according to controlled methods and worksheets.
• Set up and run HPLC and UHPLC sequences using approved columns, gradients, detectors, and chromatography data-system procedures, including instrument-readiness and system-suitability checks.
• Perform first-level review of chromatograms, calibration, retention time, peak shape, carryover, recovery, and QC results, then document and escalate anything outside established criteria.
• Complete routine instrument care and help troubleshoot solvent delivery, pressure, leaks, autosampler, column, detector, and chromatography issues under appropriate supervision.
• Maintain complete, contemporaneous records and support investigations, method verification or validation, proficiency work, and controlled process improvements as your training progresses.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceutical science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and hands-on laboratory experience.
• Foundational hands-on exposure to HPLC or UHPLC through coursework, academic research, an internship, a co-op, or employment, including accurate weighing, pipetting, dilution, and solution preparation.
• Ability to follow controlled procedures, perform routine quantitative calculations, record work clearly, recognize when results or equipment behavior are unusual, and ask for help rather than guess.

Preferred qualifications

• Up to 2 years of experience with HPLC or UHPLC, optical detectors such as UV or DAD, and a chromatography data system.
• Experience with botanical, dietary supplement, food, consumer-product, pharmaceutical, environmental, or similarly complex matrices.
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 17025, cGMP, LIMS, controlled SOPs, system suitability, calibration, QC, method verification, or method validation.

First 90 days

• You have completed core safety, quality-system, instrument, and method training and demonstrated reliable standards and sample preparation.
• You can execute at least one established HPLC or UHPLC workflow with acceptable system suitability, QC, traceability, and on-time documentation.
• You recognize common sample-preparation and chromatography problems, escalate them with useful evidence, and have contributed one practical workflow or documentation improvement.

Who this role is not for

• Someone who wants independent method ownership before mastering routine preparation, execution, documentation, and review fundamentals.
• Someone who is casual about sample identity, labeling, pipetting, calculations, cleanliness, or contemporaneous records.
• Someone willing to force integrations, repeat work until a result looks right, or hide an error or deviation instead of escalating it.

About the role

This is a hands-on individual-contributor role for an analytical scientist who can own ICP-MS work from digestion and standards preparation through calibration, interference control, QC, data review, and investigation.

The role carries day-to-day method responsibility and growing technical-leadership expectations, including clear documentation, practical troubleshooting, and analyst development under the lab's quality system.

Responsibilities

• Own routine and non-routine trace-element and metals methods, including method performance, review, and controlled improvement.
• Develop and maintain digestion, sample-preparation, reagent, labware, and contamination-control strategies for relevant matrices.
• Review calibration, internal standards, interference correction, blanks, spikes, duplicates, QC, uncertainty inputs, and reporting decisions.
• Tune, maintain, and troubleshoot ICP-MS performance, then investigate contamination, drift, recovery, sensitivity, and recurring instrument failures.
• Write validation and verification documentation, support technical review, and train analysts on defensible routine execution.

Required qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in chemistry, analytical chemistry, environmental science, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on ICP-MS laboratory experience in testing, method execution, troubleshooting, validation, or technical review.
• Practical knowledge of digestion, contamination control, calibration, internal standards, interference correction, QC, and trace-element data review.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working under a regulated-laboratory or ISO/IEC 17025 quality system.
• Experience with botanical, dietary supplement, food, consumer-product, environmental, or similarly complex matrices.
• Experience supporting investigations, validation documentation, technical review, analyst training, or proficiency testing.

First 90 days

• You understand the current ICP-MS scope, digestion workflows, contamination risks, QC expectations, and recurring failure modes.
• You have taken ownership of at least one trace-element method package and its routine-use controls.
• Analysts have clearer instructions and review feedback for digestion, contamination control, calibration, interference correction, QC, and troubleshooting.

Who this role is not for

• Someone who wants to run prepared samples without owning digestion, contamination control, or data quality.
• Someone who treats blanks, internal standards, interference correction, QC, or traceability as box-checking.
• Someone unwilling to investigate recurring instrument and method failures or coach analysts through them.

About the role

This role is for an analytical chemist who can move between sample preparation, method development, calibration and quantitation, validation, troubleshooting, technical review, SOPs, and analyst training.

The work supports botanical, dietary supplement, food, and consumer-product matrices within the lab's active scope, with an emphasis on traceability, practical instrument reliability, and data that can withstand technical scrutiny.

Responsibilities

• Own LC-MS/MS method development, verification, validation, transfer, and troubleshooting from initial scoping through routine use.
• Design and improve sample-preparation strategies for relevant botanical, supplement, food, and consumer-product matrices.
• Establish and review calibration, quantitation, system-suitability, quality-control, and acceptance criteria for defensible reporting.
• Own instrument performance, maintenance coordination, and investigations into recurring hardware, chromatography, sensitivity, and data-quality failures.
• Write SOPs, protocols, validation packages, and technical justifications, then train analysts and review routine and non-routine data.

Required qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on LC-MS/MS laboratory experience in testing, method development, validation, transfer, troubleshooting, or technical review.
• Experience working under a regulated-laboratory or ISO/IEC 17025 quality system, with practical judgment around matrix effects, extraction recovery, calibration, system suitability, and QC.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with botanical, dietary supplement, food, consumer-product, or similarly complex matrices.
• Experience owning quantitative LC-MS/MS workflows across sample preparation, method transfer, instrument maintenance, and recurring-failure investigation.
• Experience training analysts, leading technical investigations, reviewing production data, or supporting audits.

First 90 days

• You understand the current LC-MS scope, instruments, matrices, quality expectations, and recurring failure modes.
• You have taken ownership of at least one LC-MS/MS method package and its routine-use controls.
• Analysts have clearer instructions and review criteria for sample preparation, calibration, system suitability, QC, and troubleshooting.

Who this role is not for

• Someone who only wants exploratory research and does not want production method responsibility.
• Someone who treats documentation, system suitability, calibration review, or QC as administrative work.
• Someone unwilling to troubleshoot sample preparation and instruments or explain data-quality risk plainly.

About the role

This role connects laboratory workflows, 6-DOF robotic arms, lab automation platforms, instruments, sample preparation, software, and quality requirements.

The goal is durable systems that reduce analyst burden, improve repeatability, control sample identity, and make the lab easier to scale.

Responsibilities

• Map current lab workflows and identify high-value automation targets.
• Program, configure, test, and troubleshoot 6-DOF robotic arms for practical lab tasks.
• Build and improve automated workflows for liquid handling, standards prep, sample prep, rack mapping, and dilution.
• Integrate automation with LIMS, spreadsheets, instrument worklists, barcode labels, and result exports where practical.
• Write acceptance tests, IQ/OQ/PQ support materials, maintenance checklists, risk assessments, and operator instructions.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in lab automation, robotics, analytical instrumentation, process automation, scientific software, or a closely related engineering role.
• Hands-on experience programming and operating 6-DOF robotic arms in a real environment.
• Practical programming ability in Python, JavaScript, C++, ROS or ROS2, vendor robot scripting languages, or similar.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience integrating local AI models, vision models, or LLM-based planning with robotic systems.
• Experience with ROS or ROS2, MoveIt, OpenCV, depth cameras, AprilTags or ArUco markers, force or torque sensing, or machine vision.
• Experience with LIMS integrations, instrument worklists, barcode and rack mapping, CDS exports, or audit-trail expectations.

First 90 days

• You have mapped the highest-friction manual workflows.
• One small automation improvement is live or in controlled pilot use.
• Automation protocols have better documentation, coordinates, rack maps, safety states, and operator instructions.

Who this role is not for

• Someone who wants to automate without understanding the chemistry or the physical bench workflow.
• Someone who has only simulated robots and has not dealt with calibration, fixtures, collisions, drift, failed grips, and operator handoff.
• Someone who needs a clean software-only environment.

About the role

This is a site-based instrument service role for an engineer who can move from a reported symptom to a measured root cause, complete the repair, and prove that the system is ready to return to analytical work.

You will work directly with scientists, laboratory operations, quality, IT, facilities, and equipment vendors across HPLC and UHPLC, GC, LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, ICP-MS, autosamplers, vacuum systems, and related laboratory infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own hands-on troubleshooting, repair, preventive maintenance, and reliability improvement for chromatography, mass spectrometry, and related analytical systems.
• Diagnose failures across fluidics, autosamplers, ovens, pumps, vacuum systems, sources and interfaces, detectors, electronics, communications, instrument software, and supporting utilities.
• Plan and perform maintenance, calibration, tuning, performance verification, and controlled return-to-service work with scientists and quality-system owners.
• Support instrument installations, relocations, upgrades, qualifications, and decommissioning, including utilities, software, documentation, vendor coordination, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain accurate service histories, failure trends, parts and tool inventories, critical-spares plans, and escalation records, then train laboratory staff on safe first-line maintenance and fault recognition.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on field service, depot service, or in-house maintenance and repair experience with analytical laboratory instrumentation, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Deep service expertise with at least one LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, or ICP-MS platform and direct repair experience with the chromatography, sample-introduction, vacuum, electronic, and software subsystems that support it.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex electromechanical systems methodically, read technical documentation and schematics, use diagnostic and test equipment safely, document work clearly, and explain technical risk to laboratory users.

Preferred qualifications

• Factory training or substantial multi-vendor experience with Agilent, Thermo Fisher, SCIEX, Shimadzu, Waters, PerkinElmer, or comparable analytical-instrument platforms.
• Experience with instrument qualification, IQ/OQ/PQ, calibration, change control, controlled service records, or ISO/IEC 17025, cGMP, or similarly regulated laboratory environments.
• Experience improving uptime through root-cause analysis, preventive-maintenance design, critical-spares planning, failure trending, analyst training, and effective escalation to original equipment manufacturers.

First 90 days

• You understand the active instrument fleet, service history, recurring failures, safety constraints, vendor coverage, critical spares, and return-to-service expectations.
• You have independently diagnosed and resolved at least one high-priority instrument failure with a documented root cause and defensible performance check.
• The laboratory has a clearer preventive-maintenance calendar, service-record standard, escalation path, and prioritized plan for reducing avoidable downtime.

Who this role is not for

• Someone who wants to coordinate vendors or provide remote advice without opening instruments, taking measurements, and completing hands-on repairs.
• Someone who swaps assemblies until a symptom disappears without establishing root cause or verifying system performance.
• Someone willing to bypass safety controls, make undocumented changes, or return an instrument to use without evidence that it is ready.

About the role

This is a hands-on commercial leadership role for someone who can sell technical laboratory services without oversimplifying the science, quality constraints, method scope, or operating realities behind the proposal.

The work spans account strategy, customer discovery, proposal development, CRM discipline, forecasting, commercial follow-through, and clean handoff to laboratory operations and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a qualified pipeline and account strategy across relevant analytical-testing markets and regulated product categories.
• Lead customer discovery, translate technical and commercial needs into accurate proposals, and maintain follow-through from first conversation through decision.
• Own CRM hygiene, opportunity stages, next actions, forecasting, conversion metrics, and decision-ready reporting for leadership.
• Create clean handoffs from sales to laboratory operations, with clear scope, methods, matrices, turnaround needs, assumptions, and customer commitments.
• Represent laboratory capabilities, method scope, quality constraints, turnaround expectations, and public claims accurately without overpromising.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business development, technical sales, account growth, or commercial leadership for analytical laboratories, scientific services, regulated products, or a similarly technical market.
• A track record of creating qualified pipeline and advancing complex service opportunities with disciplined discovery, proposals, CRM use, forecasting, and follow-through.
• Ability to understand and communicate laboratory methods, scope, turnaround constraints, quality requirements, and commercial tradeoffs with customers and technical teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in food, dietary supplements, botanicals, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, environmental testing, or adjacent regulated markets.
• Experience selling laboratory, contract-research, quality, compliance, or other technical services to both technical and commercial buyers.
• Experience improving account strategy, conversion metrics, proposal quality, forecasting, or sales-to-operations handoffs in a growing organization.

First 90 days

• You understand the laboratory's services, customer segments, qualification criteria, proposal workflow, and recurring handoff risks.
• The active pipeline has clear stages, account priorities, owners, next actions, and a forecast leadership can use.
• Qualified opportunities are moving through documented discovery and proposal steps with accurate laboratory-operations handoffs.

Who this role is not for

• Someone who is willing to sell beyond the laboratory's actual scope, methods, capacity, or quality constraints.
• Someone who avoids CRM hygiene, forecasting, conversion metrics, documentation, or persistent follow-up.
• Someone who wants a relationship-only role detached from proposals, operating detail, and commercial accountability.