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# Manufacturing Lead (Hardware) at Mytos

- **Company:** Mytos
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/mytos/e1db686b-4874-4145-b3fa-b8131ab00a88

## Job description

## About Us

You rarely get the chance to change an entire industry. But that's the position we find ourselves in. Join us, and you'll help scale cures to patients that need them sooner.

We've developed fully-automated cell manufacturing sites, powered by custom robotics - to scale treatments to millions of patients. Last year, patients were cured of diseases like Parkinson's and vision loss using stem-cell derived cells - but today these Regenerative Medicines are produced by hand, meaning they're too expensive and hard to scale.

With our automated manufacturing sites, these therapies can now be scaled globally at low cost. We've announced partnerships across multiple therapies so far ranging from Parkinson's, to hearing loss, to bone repair - and raised $24m to expand into the market faster, and accelerate our development! Within the next 12 months, neurons grown on our machines will be going into Parkinson's patient brains.

We've assembled a world-class team to take on this challenge, with ex-Dyson engineers and Nature-published scientists working hand-in-hand. Mytos is backed by Y Combinator, the most successful startup program in the world which produced companies such as AirBnb, Dropbox, and Ginkgo Bioworks.

## The Role

We're looking for a Manufacturing Lead to own how we make our Systems & Consumables - and to make sure we can do it reliably, quickly, at scale, to the standard our customers and regulators require. Our product offering intersects two different tech stacks: electromechanical automation systems packed with custom robotics, and sterile fluidic plastic consumables made to GMP standards. You'll own both.

This is a foundational, hands-on lead role. You'll contribute to the strategic direction for manufacturing while staying close enough to the floor to fix problems yourself when it matters. You'll be working directly with the Head of Engineering and with leadership, sales, finance, and planning to make sure manufacturing keeps pace with an ambitious commercial roadmap. You'll lead and grow the team that builds everything we ship.

We want someone who has built or scaled a manufacturing function before and is ready to do it again, faster. Experience across both electromechanical assembly and sterile / GMP plastics manufacturing is a strong differentiator.

## What you'll be doing

- Own and continuously improve manufacture of our automation systems/consumables - growing volume while driving up yield/quality and driving down cost/lead time.
- Track and actively drive down COGS, model unit economics, develop and implement large capex/opex strategies.
- Bring new products into stable manufacture smoothly and on schedule.
- Lead planning, build out & setup of greenfield manufacturing facilities.
- Recruit, line-manage and develop the manufacturing team so each person grows in scope, skill, and independence.

## What you'll need

- A track record of building or scaling manufacturing functions, ideally in a fast-moving hardware, lab automation, or regulated manufacturing environment.
- Deep hands-on manufacturing engineering ability - facility design, process development / scale-up, equipment and process qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ), and root-cause problem solving on the floor.
- Strong grasp of manufacturing economics: COGS ownership, unit-cost modelling, capex and make-vs-buy decision-making.
- GMP and regulatory knowledge (ISO 13485, cleanroom manufacturing) - or the demonstrated ability to get up to speed fast.
- Experience managing suppliers and contract manufacturers: qualification, audits, quality agreements, and negotiating strong scalable outcomes for the business.
- Fluency with ERP/MRP systems for manufacturing and capacity planning, and comfort making data-driven decisions (SPC, DOE, yield analysis, COPQ).
- Personality who leads a team while staying technical, and who builds capability rather than dependency.
- Experience across both electromechanical assembly and sterile / GMP plastics manufacturing is a strong plus.

Salary and Benefits

- Competitive salary with stock options
- Lunch covered daily
- 24 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)
- Pension
- Awesome colleagues and an office in the Imperial College innovation hub in White City, where you'll be based

We're building a team that enjoys moving fast, strives for continuous improvement through learning from mistakes, and is passionate about work that contributes to solving real world problems. Join us if you want a fast-paced environment, where you're empowered to make decisions and do the best work of your career.

## About Mytos

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mytos is building the world’s first fully automated cell manufacturing platform to scale regenerative medicines from clinical trials to millions of patients at low cost.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $24M+ total funding)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Ali Afshar (CEO) and Ignacio Willats

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Biotechnology / Regenerative Medicine / Automated Cell Therapy Manufacturing
- **Target customers**: Clinical-stage cell therapy companies (B2B, Enterprise CDMO), large pharma R&D groups
- **Mission**: To scale regenerative medicines to millions of patients by automating the production of stem cell-derived therapies

## Products & Services
- **iDEM™ Platform**: Proprietary automated cell culture system that uses standard 2D T-flasks to seamlessly port manual protocols into closed, scalable automation without compromising biology. Reduces labour per batch by up to 10x and cleanroom footprint per batch by another 10x.
- **Mytos CDMO**: A fully automated contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) powered by iDEM technology. Site 1 is housed within the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult’s 80,000 sqft facility in Stevenage, UK. Offers end-to-end manufacturing services including Process & Analytical Development, Regulatory Support, and batch production with up to 50% lower batch costs compared to manual CDMOs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $24M (Series A led by Buckley Ventures in November 2023; prior rounds include Y Combinator, IQ Capital, and TBD Angels)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, Buckley Ventures, IQ Capital; founders/execs from Wayve, Dropbox, Segment, Mercury, Sana, BMS, Revolut; partnerships with Pluristyx, NOVADIP Biosciences, StemSight, and Rinri Therapeutics
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~27 employees (+11.6% YoY); announced three cell therapy manufacturing deals in September 2025; launched automated CDMO in October 2025; first in-patient dosing targeted for 2027; 5 active job postings; strong LinkedIn follower growth (+39.4% yearly)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Biology-preserving automation**: Uses the same 2D T-flask format as manual culture, meaning no need to re-engineer existing protocols — a major barrier to adoption for competing solutions.
- **Fleet architecture**: Unlike large robotic-arm solutions, the iDEM fleet has no single point of failure, increasing reliability for clinical/commercial production.
- **Cost leadership**: Claims up to 50% lower batch costs vs. manual CDMOs and 10x labour reduction, making therapies economically viable at scale.
- **End-to-end CDMO model**: Integrates process development, regulatory support, and manufacturing under one roof, reducing tech transfer delays.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the CDMO**: Expand global manufacturing sites beyond the UK (plans in place for a series of global sites).
- **Clinical validation**: Move from R&D partnerships to clinical-stage manufacturing, with cells produced on iDEM entering patients by 2027.
- **Partnership pipeline**: Continue signing deals across multiple therapeutic areas (Parkinson’s, blindness, bone repair, hearing loss) to diversify revenue and de-risk technology.
- **Hiring for growth**: Actively recruiting across engineering, quality, and scientific leadership to support CDMO ramp-up.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Directly work on curing Parkinson’s, blindness, and spinal cord injuries at scale — a rare combination of deep tech and patient impact.
- **Culture & team**: Rated 4.5/5 on employer review platforms (Culture: 4.4, Career: 4.6). Team includes engineers from Dyson, Autodesk, and Matic Robots alongside Nature-published scientists.
- **Work location**: On-site in London (HQ at 80 Wood Lane) with additional offices in Newark, California and Billingstad, Norway.
- **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage company (27 people) with clear trajectory to clinical manufacturing — offers outsized ownership and impact for early hires.
- **Perks & environment**: Fast-paced startup environment; cross-disciplinary collaboration between hardware, software, and biology teams; close ties to Y Combinator and top-tier biotech investors.

## Sources
1. [mytos.bio](https://www.mytos.bio/)
2. [mytos.bio/about](https://www.mytos.bio/about)
3. [mytos.bio/team](https://www.mytos.bio/team)
4. [jobs.lever.co/mytos](https://jobs.lever.co/mytos)
5. [linkedin.com/company/mytosbio](https://linkedin.com/company/mytosbio)

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