Scripps Research·San Diego, California
The Research Technician will support laboratory personnel by maintaining inventory, organizing workspaces, and assisting with various research projects. Responsibilities include performing mouse handling, tissue sectioning, immunohistochemistry, and data collection to support ongoing studies in brain development.
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Position Title: Research Technician
The Lippi lab at Scripps Research seeks a Research Technician as part of a growing team of investigators studying how post-transcriptional mechanisms instruct brain development and function.
We have pioneered new conceptual and technological frameworks to interrogate these mechanisms, including inducible and reversible global microRNA loss-of-function, cell type–specific microRNA–target interaction mapping, scalable manipulation of individual regulatory elements, and single-cell, isoform-sensitive measurements of translation in vivo (Zolboot et al.
Neuron 2025; Sison et al.
Nature 2026).
For more details please visit: www.lippilab.org [http://www.lippilab.org/]
As a Research Technician, you will support Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students who are using these tools to discover fundamental new biology. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with a talented team, present findings in lab meetings, author scientific papers, and contribute to exciting discoveries.
The expected hiring range for this position is $18.67 to $24 per hour, commensurate with experience. Consideration will be given to experience that exceeds the listed requirements.
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Market context
Research technician roles in California are often competitive because labs look for candidates who can support experiments reliably, document results carefully, and work with established protocols. For this Lippi Lab posting, a bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific field is required, and more experienced applicants need at least three years of related laboratory experience. The requirements and benefits shown here are AI-summarized from the original job description, helping you review fit faster; if you apply, highlight hands-on lab methods and prepare examples of accurate data handling.