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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Scientist - Functional Immunology* - **Company:** Bio-LogX FlexCo - **Location:** Wien, Austria - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** €63,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Information Technology - **Published:** September 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1494f82d4840148f ## About the Role * PhD in Immunology, Oncology, Cell Biology, or a related field. * At least 3 years of relevant work experience following your PhD (preferably in a biotech or pharma setting). * Hands-on expertise in immune-cell biology and cellular assay development. * Practical experience with primary human immune cells, dendritic cells and T cells, multicolor flow cytometry, cytokine analysis, and functional immunology assays. * Experience working with CROs and external collaborators. * Good organizational, communication, and data-interpretation skills, and the ability to work well within a small team. * Track record of scientific excellence, including publications and patent applications. * Proficiency in English (written and spoken). * Strong candidates will also offer one or more of the following: + Experience with co-culture/tri-culture systems (e.g. dendritic cell-T cell-tumor). + Experience in early-stage drug discovery and preclinical development. + Familiarity with cytokine/cytokine-mutein biology, JAK/STAT signaling, and Treg vs. effector readouts. + Experience with ex vivo patient-tissue or organoid models., * Be part of a highly motivated, multinational and fun team that believes protein based modalities can become next-generation medicines for patients. ## Description As Lead Scientist - Functional Immunology you will join our research team in Vienna and help us bring next generation drugs from the bench into the clinic. In this position you will design, establish and execute functional assays, analyze and interpret data, and contribute to the translational evidence package supporting clinical proof-of-concept studies. Your main responsibilities will be: * In-house assay development. Design, optimize, and execute in vitro functional assays to evaluate the activity of lead molecules and generate data to support mode of action studies and drug candidate selection, including immune and tumor cell co-culture systems for functional studies, T-cell activation assays and cytokine release assays * Cytokine biology. Evaluate cytokine-mediated biological activity and support head-to-head selection of engineered cytokine variants, including JAK/STAT activation assays and receptor-bias characterization as well as T-cell activation assays * Mechanism-of-action and target-engagement studies. Develop and execute in vitro studies to characterize target engagement, pharmacological profiling, and downstream biological responses of lead molecules. * CRO coordination. Coordinate and oversee studies conducted with CRO partners, including In vivo efficacy models (e.g. humanized and knock-in mouse models) and ex vivo translational models (patient tumor fragments / organoids). * Data interpretation and communication. Analyze and interpret the data, present it to the project team and management, and contribute to study design and program strategy. * Supervision and mentoring of lab technicians, * Take responsibility for a key research field within Bio-LogX and bring new immunology based treatments to patients * Lead and develop a team of highly skilled researchers and work closely with our bio-informatics, generative protein design and disease modeling teams. * Pioneer new methods and processes to industrialize key research techniques. ## Related Videos - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Geometric deep learning for drug discovery](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/264-geometric-deep-learning-for-drug-discovery) - [Enabling intelligent logistics automation: home-grown Industrial IoT platform at Austrian Post](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2018-enabling-intelligent-logistics-automation-home-grown-industrial-iot-platform-at-austrian-post) - [It's not easy being green](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/558-it-s-not-easy-being-green) - [Data Science on Software Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/162-data-science-on-software-data) - [Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100355-running-secure-life-science-research-at-scale-using-hybrid-gpu-hpc-and-kubernetes) ## Related Articles - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Jobs in Germany for Americans](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/423-jobs-in-germany-for-americans) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again)