Transform DNA templates into reliable protein data that powers cutting‑edge biotech breakthroughs. We've developed a novel insect-based expression platform to enable bio-products across humanity's most critical verticals.

At Future

Fields, we are continually learning and evolving. We believe in "failing forward" and leveraging our mistakes to help us grow. We actively work to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and psychological safety through transparency, structure, and open communication.

We know it sounds cliché, but every employee really is a valued and equal member of the Future Fields team. We are a rapidly growing venture‑backed startup (with support from awesome investors including Bee Partners, Y Combinator, BDC Climate Tech, R7 Partners, Toyota Ventures and Amplify Capital). Joining our team now means you'll have the opportunity to shape our culture and products, to lead others, and to influence the direction of our company.

Perhaps most importantly, you'll be joining a team that is genuinely energized by this work and the meaningful potential of biotech to change the world. We are looking for a hands‑on Protein Biochemistry Technician to run small‑scale protein expression and analytics on our in‑house expression platform - for our clients, and for ourselves. Most people know us for raising fruit flies at industrial scale to make recombinant proteins.

Your day runs from template to data: check the DNA templates that arrive, make the mRNA, run the expression, and measure what came out with analytics you trust. Some weeks, something won't behave - low yield, a truncated product, two assays that tell different stories: and you'll help work out why, with controls and clean experiments rather than repeats and hope. All of this work is research grade.

That means rigour, controls and records you'd be happy to show anyone. You'll report to Paige, Technical Project Manager, as part of our CDMO team . In this role, you'll collaborate closely with platform development scientists and client‑facing project managers.

While project managers manage client relationships and deliver final reports, you own the responsibility of ensuring all handed‑over data is accurate and dependable. Like everyone on a small team, you'll also pitch in on other general lab technician duties for the CDMO team as needed. Like most positions at Future Fields, a solid foundation in biology - specifically biochemistry and molecular biology - is essential.

Most of your day is in the lab, with very little desk time, and a good share of the work is repetitive by design. Set up and run small‑scale protein expression on our in‑house platform for client projects and internal programs, on a schedule other people can rely on. Bring the same care to the fiftieth run as the first: correct setup and the right controls always.

Plan your week around deadlines, and flag early when something is at risk of slipping. Make mRNA by in vitro transcription - capping, purification and RNA QC - with careful RNase‑free technique.

Receive and QC incoming DNA templates: concentration, integrity, and a check that what arrived is what was ordered.

Produce data that holds up: proper controls and standards, sensible replicates,



and results you can explain. Help improve methods as you go. When expression or analytics don't behave - low yield, truncation, misfolding, noisy assays - help work out why, with experiments that separate the possibilities rather than changing five variables at once.

Data, documentation and confidentiality Hand clean, well‑organized results to the project manager on each client project, who prepares what goes to the client. Keep client materials and data confidential, always. Upstream materials, occasionally ~ Occasionally help prepare upstream reagents and materials when the team needs it.

You're comfortable when priorities shift mid‑week, and when you're handed something half‑finished, your instinct is to get it over the line. Hands‑on molecular biology. PCR, gel electrophoresis, and nucleic acid quantification and QC as a regular part of your work.

Hands‑on RNA handling, ideally in vitro transcription, somewhere RNase‑free technique genuinely mattered. Protein expression and biochemistry. Your lab notebook or ELN is something another scientist could pick up and repeat your work from, and you notice when a label, a number or a band looks off.

You've had an experiment fail and helped work out why. An academic or industry lab where you were the reliable pair of hands for protein work, a core facility, a CRO or CDMO, a synthetic biology or biotech startup, or a protein science or assay team. A BSc or MSc in biochemistry, molecular biology or a related field, plus roughly 2+ years of hands‑on lab experience.

Above all, we're looking for someone who takes initiative, takes feedback well, and wants to grow with a team that's still building a lot of things for the first time. Bonus points (nice‑to‑haves) CRO, CDMO or core‑facility experience, where the protein belongs to someone else and so does the deadline. Benchling, or experience working within a quality system.

Your future (with Future Fields) We'll use this as a guide for your first year, knowing that in a fast‑paced environment, we'll adapt and evolve these goals together. Develop a working understanding of our technology, terminology and end‑to‑end operating process, from strain development and insect rearing through midstream processing, purification, testing and customer delivery - and where small‑scale expression fits alongside it. Learn our expression platform by running it yourself alongside the people who built it: templates, expression runs, controls and the assays that read them out.

Get set up in Benchling, and learn how we track samples, projects and handoffs between teams. Run routine protein expression and mRNA prep independently for internal and client projects, on schedule. Own the core analytics workflow - gels, Westerns, quantification and plate‑based assays - with controls and standards you trust.





Have delivered your first client project results to the project manager, on time and right the first time. Have helped work through your first expression or assay problem to a documented answer. Be someone the team counts on to hit dates, with several projects running at once and sample tracking that doesn't depend on anyone's memory.

Have improved at least one part of the workflow - template QC, IVT, an assay or expression setup - in a way that saves time or makes results more reliable. Be handling common expression and assay problems yourself, and know when to bring in help. Be sharing structured observations with the platform team, so shifts in performance get caught early.

Be running much of the day‑to‑day of our small‑scale expression work, with project managers and colleagues trusting your results without a second look. Have documented methods and SOPs for template QC, IVT, expression and analytics that a new team member could learn from. Our story and approach to science are anything but conventional.

Matt (co‑founder/CEO) was a touring punk rock musician who dropped out of University before returning to complete his PhD in cell biology. Jalene (co‑founder/COO) is a social researcher by training, previously working on issues from the right to affordable housing to harm reduction. The spark of an idea for our technology came while waiting in line for tiny, Canadian donuts.

Our broader team of scientists, engineers, circus performers, restaurateurs, dancers, music aficionados, kid parents, pet parents, cyclists, and artists hail from every corner of the world - from small town Alberta to Poland, India, Vietnam and Pakistan. We credit our diverse team and experiences as the key to our success - and we encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply. Where is Future Fields located?

Our headquarters and production facility are located in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, in a renovated historic warehouse. From the exposed brick to our summer patio—it's not your average lab space. It is central, close to transit and bike lanes, and walking distance to some of the city's best coffee shops, restaurants and Edmonton's incredible river valley.

Is this role on‑site? This is a lab role in Edmonton, and most of your day will be at the bench rather than at a desk. Nobody has - it's our own in‑house platform, so nobody arrives already knowing it.

A strong background in protein expression, molecular biology and analytics is what matters, and we'll teach you the platform. Each client project has a project manager who owns communication with the client and prepares what gets sent to them. Your job is to make sure the data behind it is excellent.

Some include: comprehensive health, dental and vision benefits; equity; flexible paid time off policy; and the office is always stocked with snacks and all the coffee you can drink. Projects and priorities shift fast. The risk is high, but so is the reward.

We are committed to building a diverse team and are proud to be an equal chance employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities and candidates from all backgrounds and identities.

📌 Protein Biochemistry Technician (Edmonton)
🏢 Future Fields
📍 Edmonton