
Cradle is an AI-powered protein engineering platform that accelerates the discovery and optimization of proteins. Their platform allows scientists to generate protein candidates, explore experimental…

Cradle is an AI-powered protein engineering platform that accelerates the discovery and optimization of proteins. Their platform allows scientists to generate protein candidates, explore experimental…
What: AI-powered protein engineering platform and wet lab
Founded: 2021
Headcount (approx.): 104
Recent funding: $73M Series B (Nov 2024); prior $24M (Nov 2023)
Lead investor (Series B): IVP
Protein design and optimization for pharma, industrial biotechnology, and foodtech
2021
Biotechnology
$24M
Reported $24M raised Nov 27, 2023
$73M
Series B reported Nov 26, 2024 to expand platform and wet lab
$5.5M
Seed round announced by company
“Index Ventures, Kindred Capital, IVP, Kindred Capital, Chris Gibson, Tom Glocer”
This is Cradle Proteins are the molecular machines of life, used for many therapeutic, diagnostic, chemical, agricultural and food applications. Designing and optimizing proteins takes a lot of expert knowledge and manual effort, through the use of custom computational and biological tools.
Machine learning is revolutionizing this space, by enabling high-fidelity protein models. At Cradle, we offer a software platform for AI-guided discovery and optimization of proteins, so that biologists can design proteins faster and at scale. We are already used by clients across biopharma, biotech, agri-tech, food-tech, and academia.
We're an experienced team of around 75 people. We've built many successful products before and have enough funding for multiple years of runway. We are distributed across two main locations, Zurich and Amsterdam, and are focused on building the best possible team culture.
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We offer our employees a very competitive salary, a generous equity stake in the company and a wide range of benefits and career progression opportunities.
Your Role As a Scientific Advisor within our Customer Success team, you will play a key role in ensuring our customers achieve success with Cradle’s software and services. You’ll act as a trusted partner of biotech and pharmaceutical companies, particularly for biotherapeutic and antibody projects. As part of this role, you’ll assist customers in mapping their program goals and data to Cradle’s capabilities, using our machine learning platform, and maximising the value and impact of our protein optimisation software. For this, you’ll collaborate across Cradle’s engineering, product, and sales teams to ensure a superb customer experience and inform product development to build the most sought-after features.
Your Responsibilities Scientific advisory Work closely with Cradle customers, ranging from medium-sized biotechs to global biopharma leaders, to:
Partnership
Customer Experience And Voice Of Customer
Your Qualifications Must-haves
Nice-to-haves
Our commitment to inclusive hiring Cradle evaluates all candidates based on merit, regardless of sex, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, or any other aspect of identity. We maintain zero tolerance for discrimination and actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
AI disclosure Cradle uses an applicant tracking system that includes basic AI-assisted features which may generate scores or rankings based on how applications match a job description. These outputs are not used to make or meaningfully influence hiring decisions — all candidates are evaluated through a thorough, human-led review by our recruiting team.
A Notice About Recruitment Scams Please be aware that scammers are posing as us in order to get your personal details or money. We only communicate via @cradle.bio email addresses, we only make job offers after having met you in person at our office in Zurich or Amsterdam, and we never ask you to pay for anything during the interview process.