Lab Technician, Preclinical

About Nudge

At Nudge, our mission is to develop the best technology for interfacing with the brain to improve people's lives. We're starting with an approach that we believe can help the most people the fastest, and also allow us to learn as much about the brain as possible: developing a non-invasive, ultrasound-based device that can stimulate and image the brain at high resolution and depth. This is a vertically integrated effort building cutting-edge hardware, software, and research capabilities to create products that can benefit millions — and eventually billions — of people.

To succeed, we need to assemble world-class teams across everything we do. We hire people who are exceptional at their craft, believe hard things are worth doing, and execute relentlessly — people who expect the highest levels of both rigor and integrity from each other.

About the role

We’re looking for a Lab Technician to support the execution of preclinical experiments at Nudge, focused on understanding the effects and mechanisms of focused ultrasound on the brain. You’ll work alongside our research scientists across in vivo and in vitro work — handling animals, maintaining cell cultures, building and preparing experimental setups, processing tissue, collecting data, and ensuring experiments run smoothly.

As a Lab Technician at Nudge, you will:

• Handle rodents (mice and rats) for experimental procedures in compliance with protocols

• Assist with in vivo procedures including animal preparation, positioning, anesthesia monitoring, and ultrasound delivery

• Assist with rodent perfusions, brain extraction, and tissue collection for downstream histological and molecular analysis

• Assist with tissue processing, embedding, sectioning, and basic staining (H&E, IHC)

• Maintain and support in vitro cell culture experiments, including plating, passaging, treatment application, and cell-based assays

• Design and build custom tools to support experimental setups and improve workflow efficiency

About you

• 1+ years of hands-on experience working in a preclinical or animal research laboratory

• Experience handling rodents (mice and/or rats) and familiarity with basic in vivo techniques (dosing, anesthesia, perfusion, tissue harvest)

• Familiarity with sterile cell culture technique

• Comfortable building things with your hands — fabricating simple fixtures, adapting equipment, and solving practical problems in the lab

• Bachelor’s degree in biology, neuroscience, or a related field preferred

• High integrity and strong professional judgment