Careers

We are currently seeking applicants for the following positions.
We look forward to your application.
(Recruitment would be closed once the positions are filled.)

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  • Researcher

  • Cell Control Field, Experimental Omics
  • Researcher in Cell Control Field
  • Experimental Omics Researcher
  • Technical Staff

  • Please see application and interview procedures here.

    Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

    Researcher

    Updated July 26, 2023

    Job description Our goals is to achieve "data-driven cell control" and "data-driven drug discovery" based on our platform technologies and cell big data.
    We are looking for researchers who can utilize bioinformatics, machine learning, statistics, and mathematical science to accelerate technology development for drug discovery and the practical application of regenerative medicine.
    We can analyze large-scale, high-precision cell big data which can be obtained only by our experimental technologies.

    Our research projects consist of (A) in-house research projects and (B) collaborative research projects with other companies.

    (A) Development of cell control technology that integrates single-cell, large-scale transcriptome analysis technology and cell culture optimization technology:
    ・Research to improve the quantitative and qualitative throughput of single-cell and large-scale transcriptome analysis technology by more than one digit
    ・Research to build a cell culture system, a micro-volume medium preparation system, and a multifaceted cell evaluation system in a microspace, and to improve the current screening throughput of culture conditions by more than two digits
    ・In-house research to acquire gene expression profiles and metadata of "various types of cell lines x various cell states" and build our own integrated database
    ・Research to advance laboratory automation data acquisition process

    (B) Collaborative researches with client companies:
    ・Phenotypic drug discovery and clinical biomarker identification using single-cell, large-scale transcriptome data
    ・Identification of cell quality markers for cell medicines and optimization of cell culture conditions
    Qualification Requirements Must:
    ・General knowledge of statistics and machine learning (hypothesis testing, linear models, cross-validation, etc.)
    ・Programming experience (Python, R, Rust, or Julia)

    Want:
    ・General knowledge of molecular biology
    ・General knowledge of bioinformatics
    ・Ph.D. in biology, informatics, engineering, pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, etc.
    ・Research experience in drug discovery and regenerative medicine
    ・Experience in collaboration with experimental researchers
    ・Corporate R&D experience
    ・Team management
    ・Experience in gene expression analysis using NGS
    ・Experience in imaging data analysis
    ・Experience in omics data analysis
    ・Experience in mathematical model analysis
    ・Experience in building packages and libraries
    ・Experience in developing new platform technology
    Location Nihombashi office or Kobe Laboratory (You can combine WFH)
    Type of employment Full-time regular employment (No fixed period of employment)
    Probation period: 3 months (under the same condition as regular employment)
    Salary and salary increase - To be determined in consideration of experience, ability, age, etc. (annual income of more than 6 million yen)
    - Salary increase once a year
    - Overtime payment
    Working hours From 9am to 6pm (prescribed working hours 8 hours and 1 hour break)
    - We can discuss working hours (e.g. flexible system)
    Holidays/Vacations - Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
    - 120 or more annual holidays including public holidays, New Year's holidays
    - Special leave such as paid leave, congratulatory or condolence leave, moving leave, refresh leave, etc.
    Welfare - Social insurance programs: pension insurance, health insurance, employment insurance, and workers' compensation
    - Subsidies for medical examination expenses
    - Leased company housing system
    Transportation expenses - Public transportation: up to 50,000 yen per month
    - Commuting by car: negotiable

    Please see application and interview procedures here.

    Cell Control Field, Experimental Omics

    Researcher in Cell Control Field

    Updated August 31, 2022

    Job description Our goals is to achieve "data-driven cell control" and "data-driven drug discovery" based on our platform technologies and cell big data.
    We are looking for researchers who are motivated in a wide range of research and development, from basic to applied, and who can promote technological development and commercialization for the creation of new drugs and the practical application of regenerative medicines.

    Illustrative Projects:
    ・Research to build cell culture systems, micro-volume medium preparation systems, and multifaceted cell evaluation systems at a microspace level, and to improve the current screening throughput of culture conditions by more than two digits
    ・Research on cell culture optimization which integrates single-cell, large-scale transcriptome analysis and the above cell culture screening technology
    ・In-house research to acquire gene expression profiles and metadata of "various types of cell lines x various cell states" and build our own integrated database
    ・Research to advance laboratory automation data acquisition process

    Other Ongoing Projects:
    ・Research to improve the quantitative and qualitative throughput of single-cell and large-scale transcriptome analysis by more than one digit
    ・Research to develop high-throughput technology which can measure multi-omics information simultaneously
    ・Collaborative researches with other companies / academia conducting phenotypic drug discovery and clinical biomarker identification using single-cell and large-scale transcriptome data
    ・Collaborative researches to search for quality markers for cell medicines and optimize cell culture conditions
    Qualification Requirements Must:
    Equivalent to Ph.D. in science
    5 years or more of research work experience in any of the following themes:
    ・Cell culture techniques (including experience of culturing multiple types of primary human cells and stem cells)
    ・Omics (especially transcriptome)
    ・High-throughput screening
    ・Quantitative analysis of biological substances
    ・Solution chemistry and condensed matter physics
    ・Cell performance/quality evaluation (proliferation, titer/efficacy, ability to induce differentiation, etc.)
    ・Automation of biological experiments
    ・New construction of bio-experimental technology

    Want:
    ・Expertise in drug discovery and regenerative medicines
    ・Team management skills
    ・Cell sorting skills for rare population cells
    ・Knowledge of statistical analysis, Bayesian optimization, design of experiments, and quality engineering
    ・Programming
    ・Patent application experience
    ・Business-level English communication skills
    Location Kobe Laboratory
    Type of employment Full-time regular employment (No fixed period of employment)
    Probation period: 3 months (under the same condition as regular employment)
    Salary and salary increase - To be determined in consideration of experience, ability, age, etc. (annual income of more than 6 million yen)
    - Salary increase once a year
    - Overtime payment
    Working hours From 9am to 6pm (prescribed working hours 8 hours and 1 hour break)
    - We can discuss working hours (e.g. flexible system)
    Holidays/Vacations - Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
    - 120 or more annual holidays including public holidays, New Year's holidays
    - Special leave such as paid leave, congratulatory or condolence leave, moving leave, refresh leave, etc.
    Welfare - Social insurance programs: pension insurance, health insurance, employment insurance, and workers' compensation
    - Subsidies for medical examination expenses
    - Leased company housing system
    Transportation expenses - Public transportation: up to 50,000 yen per month
    - Commuting by car: negotiable

    Please see application and interview procedures here.

    Experimental Omics Researcher

    Updated November 30, 2022

    Job description Would you like to develop transcriptome analysis technology with the world's highest precision and the throughput?
    We are looking for researchers who develop platform technology for data-driven drug discovery and practical application of regenerative medicine.

    Our single-cell transcriptome analysis technology was ranked as No.1 in the accuracy score in the Human Cell Atlas international benchmarking project in 2020.
    In addition, our large-scale bulk transcriptome analysis technology has dozens of times the throughput compared with conventional RNA-seq technology.
    However, there is still room for improvement and we would like to evolve them to accelerate the development of new drugs for patients with intractable diseases.

    Illustrative Projects:
    ・Research to improve the quantitative and qualitative throughput of single-cell and large-scale transcriptome analysis technology by more than one digit
    ・Research to advance laboratory automation and data acquisition process
    ・Research to develop high-throughput technology which can measure multi-omics information simultaneously

    Other Ongoing Projects:
    ・In-house research on cell control technologies which integrates transcriptome analysis and cell culture optimization technique to improve culture condition screening throughput by more than two digit
    ・In-house research to acquire gene expression profiles and metadata of "various types of cell lines x various cell states" and build our own integrated database
    ・Collaborative researches with other companies / academia conducting phenotypic drug discovery and clinical biomarker identification using single-cell and large-scale transcriptome data
    ・Collaborative researches to search for quality markers for cell medicines and optimize cell culture conditions
    Qualification Requirements Must:
    Equivalent to Ph.D. in science
    Enthusiasm to develop cutting-edge technologies

    5 years or more of research work experience in any of the following themes:
    ・Omics (especially transcriptome)
    ・Construction of molecular biology experimental system or biomolecular measurement system
    ・Construction of high-throughput screening system
    ・Laboratory automation

    Want:
    ・Expertise in drug discovery or regenerative medicines
    ・Team management skills
    ・Development of reagents, molecular biology research kits, diagnostic agents, clinical test agents, in-vitro diagnostic agents, and test kits
    ・Genetic engineering experiment
    ・Knowledge of enzymatic reactions
    ・Knowledge of statistical analysis, Bayesian optimization, design of experiments, and quality engineering
    ・Programming
    ・Patent application experience
    ・Business-level English communication skills
    Location Kobe Laboratory
    Type of employment Full-time regular employment (No fixed period of employment)
    Probation period: 3 months (under the same condition as regular employment)
    Salary and salary increase - To be determined in consideration of experience, ability, age, etc. (annual income of more than 6 million yen)
    - Salary increase once a year
    - Overtime payment
    Working hours From 9am to 6pm (prescribed working hours 8 hours and 1 hour break)
    - We can discuss working hours (e.g. flexible system)
    Holidays/Vacations - Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
    - 120 or more annual holidays including public holidays, New Year's holidays
    - Special leave such as paid leave, congratulatory or condolence leave, moving leave, refresh leave, etc.
    Welfare - Social insurance programs: pension insurance, health insurance, employment insurance, and workers' compensation
    - Subsidies for medical examination expenses
    - Leased company housing system
    Transportation expenses - Public transportation: up to 50,000 yen per month
    - Commuting by car: negotiable

    Please see application and interview procedures here.

    Technical Staff

    Updated June 26, 2023

    Job description We are looking for technical staff who can proactively support development of new technologies and acquisition of cell big data which lead to "data-driven cell control".
    If you want to expand the scope of work and career as a technical staff, shall we take on a challenge together at our company?

    We plan to ask for following experiments and laboratory environment maintenance:
    ・Cell biology experiments (cell culture, passaging, cryopreservation, screening, and cell sorting)
    ・Molecular biology experiments (cDNA library preparation, next-generation sequence and microplate reader operation)
    ・Medium preparation (reagent weighing, solution preparation)
    ・Experiment-related paperwork (e.g. SOP creation, contracts / expense sheets processing)
    ・Laboratory environment maintenance (daily inspection of equipment, cleaning and tidying up, waste liquid treatment, inventory management and ordering of reagents and consumables, etc.)
    ・Other paperworks (e.g. sending documents, receiving goods)
    Considering your past experience and wishes, you may be also asked to conduct research works related to cell culture and molecular biology.

    Our research projects consist of (A) in-house research projects and (B) collaborative research projects with other companies:

    (A) Development of cell control technology that integrates single-cell, large-scale transcriptome analysis and cell culture optimization technology:
    ・Research to improve the quantitative and qualitative throughput of our single-cell and large-scale transcriptome analysis by more than one digit
    ・Research to build a cell culture system, a micro-volume medium preparation system, and a multifaceted cell evaluation system in a microspace, and to improve the current screening throughput of culture conditions by more than two digits
    ・In-house research to acquire gene expression profiles and metadata of "various types of cell lines x various cell states" and build our own integrated database
    ・Research to advance laboratory automation data acquisition process

    (B) Collaborative researches with client companies:
    ・Phenotypic drug discovery and clinical biomarker identification using single-cell, large-scale transcriptome data
    ・Identification of cell quality markers for cell medicines and optimization of cell culture conditions

    We will explain about the specific scope of work and your discretion at an interview.
    Qualification Requirements Must:
    ・Graduation of university in science fields, bio-related junior college, bio-related vocational school graduate or above
    ・General cell culturing techniques (e.g. human-derived cells, stem cells)
    ・Experience in molecular biology experiments (RNA extraction, PCR, qPCR, nucleic acid quantification, etc.)
    ・Proactiveness
    ・Precise and detailed work

    Want:
    ・Ph.D. or master's degrees
    ・Experiments on next-generation sequencing
    ・High throughput screening
    ・Preparation of reagents and culture media (e.g. weighing, automatic dispensing, etc.)
    ・Simple programming
    ・Research experience in a company (pharma and biotech) for over a year
    ・Can discuss with researchers based on research data
    ・Can catch up / learn quickly
    ・Can work enthusiastically
    Location Kobe Laboratory
    Type of employment Full-time regular employment (No fixed period of employment)
    Probation period: 3 months (under the same condition as regular employment)
    Salary and salary increase - To be determined in consideration of experience, ability, age, etc. (annual income of more than 4 million yen)
    - Salary increase once a year
    - Overtime payment
    Working hours From 9am to 6pm (prescribed working hours 8 hours and 1 hour break)
    - We can discuss working hours (e.g. flexible system)
    Holidays/Vacations - Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
    - 120 or more annual holidays including public holidays, New Year's holidays
    - Special leave such as paid leave, congratulatory or condolence leave, moving leave, refresh leave, etc.
    Welfare - Social insurance programs: pension insurance, health insurance, employment insurance, and workers' compensation
    - Subsidies for medical examination expenses
    - Leased company housing system
    Transportation expenses - Public transportation: up to 50,000 yen per month
    - Commuting by car: negotiable

    Please see application and interview procedures here.

    Recruitment process

    Application Please apply by e-mail with the following documents attached.
    The subject of the application email should be “Recruitment Application” and the address should be “Recruitment Section”.
    Please include your desired job title in the body of the email.

    [Application documents (format is free)]
    ・Resume
    ・Curriculum vitae
    In addition, please fill in the above documents with your motivation and self-promotion.

    【address】
    Knowledge Palette Co., Ltd. Recruitment Section
    careers[@]knowledge-palette.com

    * Recruitment would be closed once the positions are filled.
    Document screening We will review the submitted application documents.
    We will notify you of the results by email within a week or so, regardless of whether you pass or fail.
    Applicants who pass the screening will be notified of the schedule for the first interview.
    interview We will conduct an individual interview about the job you will be in charge of, your skills and specialty.
    You will be asked to introduce yourself, why you want to apply, and give a brief presentation about your experience so far, followed by a question-and-answer session.
    It is also an opportunity to deepen your understanding of the company and duties, so if you have any questions, please ask.
    We will notify you of the results by email or phone.

    * Multiple interviews will be conducted.
    * Interviews can be conducted online or at the office.
    * In addition to the above selection process, we may ask for additional interviews and document submissions.
    Unofficial offer We will send a job offer notification to those who pass the final interview.

    * Personal information acquired from application documents will be used for the purpose of complying with the Personal Information Protection Act and for the purpose of conducting necessary procedures for personnel, salary, and welfare relations after hiring, and for purposes other than this purpose. not used or provided. The application documents will be destroyed in an appropriate manner after the selection process is completed.