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# Open Application at Biosphere

- **Company:** Biosphere
- **Location:** Oakland, CA
- **Posted:** 2025-08-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/biosphere/jobs/4016705009

## Job description

Biosphere is growing quickly: if you’re excited by what we’re building, we’d love to hear from you. Whether your background is in bioprocess engineering, synthetic biology, automation, operations, manufacturing, business development, or something unexpected, please reach out.

Who We’re Looking For

- Relentless builders and problem-solvers
- People motivated by impact, resilience, and transforming the world using biotechnology
- Individuals with experience in biotech, chemicals, hardware, or manufacturing

We will reach out if there’s a fit now, or in the future as we grow.

## About Biosphere

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Biosphere is replacing the 1950's steam bioreactor with a modern, UV-enabled design to reduce the capital intensity of biomanufacturing.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Oakland, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Brian Heligman and Arye Lipman

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Industrial Biotechnology / Biomanufacturing
- **Target Customers**: B2B, serving companies developing next-generation bioproducts (food, nutrition, specialty chemicals, enzymes, materials, fuels)
- **Mission**: Unleash industrial biology to sustainably manufacture material abundance.

## Products & Services
- **UV-Sterilized Bioreactor**: A modern bioreactor design that uses ultraviolet radiation for sterilization instead of traditional steam, simplifying hardware and reducing capital costs. This is the company's core platform technology enabling rapid scale-up and lower-cost manufacturing for bioproducts.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $8.8M (Seed Round, led by VXI Capital and Lowercarbon Capital, announced Jan 2025). Additionally, a $9M grant over 3.5 years from the U.S. Department of Defense (announced May 2026).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $8.8M (Seed) + $9M DoD Grant
- **Notable Investors**: Lowercarbon Capital, Founders Fund, VXI Capital, GS Futures, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM)
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Won a $9M grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (May 2026).
    - Headcount grew 5% YoY, now at 9 employees.
    - Company is actively hiring and looking to acquire strain and process IP in food/nutrition, consumer health, specialty chemicals, and enzymes.
    - Featured in TechCrunch and Synbiobeta for their breakthrough technology.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Core Technology**: Proprietary UV sterilization approach for bioreactors, a fundamental redesign of a 70-year-old industry standard (the steam bioreactor). This dramatically reduces capital intensity and operational complexity.
- **Strong Backing**: Supported by top-tier deep-tech and climate investors (Lowercarbon Capital, Founders Fund).
- **Clear Problem Focus**: Solving a critical, well-known bottleneck in the $100B bioproducts industry (the reliance on outdated reactor designs).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale-up & Deployment**: Enabling rapid scale-up for next-generation bioproducts by reducing risk and unlocking lower-cost manufacturing.
- **Asset Acquisition**: Actively seeking to acquire strain and process IP to expand their portfolio and capabilities.
- **Government & Defense**: Leveraging DoD grants to develop and deploy their technology for critical chemical manufacturing.

## Why Work Here
- **Impact**: Opportunity to work on a fundamental challenge in biomanufacturing, directly contributing to a more sustainable future.
- **Culture**: Described as a "small, passionate team" of "relentless builders and problem-solvers." Values resilience and transforming the world using technology.
- **Growth Stage**: Early-stage (Seed) with significant growth trajectory, offering high autonomy and the chance to shape the company.
- **Location**: Based in Oakland, CA. Roles appear to be on-site/in-office.
- **Team**: Highly competent team with expertise in commercial-scale fermentation, robotic greenhouses, thin-film semiconductors, and high-throughput bioinformatics.

## Sources
1. [biosphere.io](https://www.biosphere.io/)
2. [biosphere.io/about](https://www.biosphere.io/about)
3. [LinkedIn - Biosphere](https://www.linkedin.com/company/biosphereio)
4. [Greenhouse Jobs - Biosphere](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/biosphere)
5. [Greenhouse - Open Application](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/biosphere/jobs/4016705009)

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