🌍 Enzidia is Hiring! — Join us to be part of the decisive factor for humanity’s sustainability transition.
Enzidia was founded in early 2024 to unleash the biomanufacturing revolution through a breakthrough technology platform that accelerates the industry's core hardware (enzymes) like never before.
For 18 months, we stayed maximally lean, agile, and resourceful to build a strong foundation before scaling. Today, that foundation is in solid place:
- Proven breakthrough technologies for low-cost and massive-scale enzyme acceleration and data collection.
- Patent protections filed for our core innovations.
- Company logistics running smoothly.
- A deep understanding of the industry – from a global perspective down to the ground-level technical and market conditions of >200 individual bioproducts.
- Commercial partnerships with wide interests across the global biomanufacturing industry.
- Close collaborations with world-leading research groups and talents for continuous innovation.
It’s time to scale faster. The climate and environmental crises won’t wait. Neither will Enzidia.
We are now opening our doors to talents with the greatest potential from all over the world to join this journey and make a real dent on humanity’s biggest collective challenges.
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Director of Synthetic Biology / CTO
Responsibilities
The primary responsibility of this role is to lead Enzidia’s R&D operations to deliver industrial microbial strains and bioprocesses, while expanding Enzidia’s core platform with new workflows. Specifically, you will:
·     Lead efficient execution of multiple industrial strain development projects, working with other team members to deisgn optimal project plans and continuosly adjust priorities.
·     Expand core platform capabilities through creativity, collaboration, learning, and experimentation.
·     Lead the building of Enzidia’s new lab facilities and operations.
·     Play a major role in recruiting and training a world-class R&D team at Enzidia.
·     Play a major role in developing integrated business and technology development strategies for the company.
Qualifications
1.    You have strong industrial strain development experiences, both at the hands-on level and leadership level.
2.    You have performed most of the expected responsibilities at some capacity with great effectiveness.
3.    You have extensive knowledge in some combinations of: microbial synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, enzyme engineering, fermentation, high-throughput experiments, chemical analytics, big data management, machine learning, NGS.
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✨ What Enzidia Expects of You, and What You Can Expect of Your Enzidia Teammates
1.    You are one of the most honest persons you know.
2.    You are motivated and energized by Enzidia’s mission.
3.    You don’t shy away from intense intellectual or technical discussions - you’re energized by them.
4.    Your ego is directed toward achieving great things. You care about what’s right, not who’s right.
5.    You are willing to change your mind and consider new perspectives when faced with fresh ideas or evidence.
6.    You are emotionally mature, able to give feedback out of kindness and receive feedback with curiosity.
7.    You have overcome major challenges and come out stronger.
8.    You are organized in both thinking and work.
9.    You can see the big picture without losing sight of details.
10. You carry a strong sense of altruism.
Who Shouldn’t Apply
- If you care more about surface-level politeness and ego over honesty.
- If you have trouble taking the responsibility of providing honest feedback to your teammates, including those in "superior" positions.
- If you cannot receive honest feedback with curiosity and openness
To learn about Enzidia’s work culture, check out Enzidia’s operational principles:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/enzidia-way-operational-principles-guidelines-2025s-jinbei-li-qtyqf/
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🌱 Why Join Enzidia?
Every now and then, a breakthrough changes an entire industry, and even how our society works:
·      Semiconductors - 100x faster than transistors - transformed how we work with information.
·      GPUs - 100x faster than CPUs - unlocked the AI revolution.
·      Recombinant DNA and next-gen sequencing redefined biotechnology.
We believe the ENZIDIA enzyme engineering platform is that breakthrough for biomanufacturing, a field holding the key to the remaining challenges of humanity’s sustainability transition.
Enzymes are the world’s most powerful manufacturing machines. Imagine Earth without enzymes. It will be of barren lands and sterile sea, rocks and deserts. Enzymes made the entire organic living world possible. Even fossil fuels, the feedstock of today’s economy, came eventually from enzymes’ work. They are not the predominant human manufacturing approach yet only because we hadn’t had the best way to tame them.
With evolution speeds 10 million times faster and AI-directed data collection 1000x greater than mainstream platforms (and even more than nature), we can accelerate nature’s most powerful manufacturing machines like never before. The scale of revolution this can unleash is hard to predict, but it won’t be small. Better yet, the way we do it is endlessly fun, highly multi-disciplinary, and never boring.
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You should not join Enzidia for the notion that Enzidia is already strong and successful. There are lots of stronger companies out there today, and we are far from claiming success yet.
You should join Enzidia if you believe this is, among all your opportunities:
1.    An organization doing the right things, both in the mission and the effectiveness of its approach.
2.    A team that can bring out your greatest potential and turn it into real solutions.
3.    A place where your efforts can make the greatest positive impact for the world.
In short: you should join Enzidia if you believe it is the most worthwhile place to devote your energy in the coming years. We are not strong and successful today. You get to make it so through what you do.
Having the potential and all the essential elements is one thing; getting it done is another. Success comes with stumbling, learning, and relentless persistence. Nothing great is easy to achieve. We are looking for those who are not intimidated, but excited, by such a journey.
Ready to be part of the decisive factor for humanity’s sustainability transition? Let’s talk.
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đź“© How to Apply
Please send the following materials to team@enzidia.com:
1.    CV
2.   Cover letter –
- Explaining why you want to join Enzidia, how you hope to contribute, and what you hope to get from working here.
- 3 short bullets of your most relevant experiences.
- Availability: current location/time zone, work authorization, and earliest start date.
- References: 1–2 names (we’ll ask before contacting).
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Logistics:
1. Timeline. Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis. Most positions are expected to be filled between Nov. 2025 and Jan. 2026. The start time is between Dec. and Feb., with consideration for the candidate’s situations.
2. Location. Copenhagen is ranked as the world’s #1 most livable city. It is peaceful, harmonious, safe, family-friendly, with easily accessible green spaces. Enzidia’s R&D headquarter is chosen here for its innovation-conducive environment and dynamic biotech ecosystem.
3. Compensation. We pay well, so that you don’t need to look elsewhere. This comes in the form of base salary and equity (both subject to frequent performance-based raises), as well as relocation assistance and success bonuses.
Living in Denmark automatically comes with free healthcare, free education, generous parental leave, 25 days of annual paid holidays.
4. For international applicants: Denmark offers a straightforward residency permit process for international researchers and professionals. New expat researchers enjoy significant tax reduction for up to 7 years.
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Other open positions at Enzidia:
- Director of Computation / Senior Computational Biologist / Senior ML Engineer
- Senior Bioengineers (Metabolic engineering, microbial synthetic biology, biosensors, enzyme engineering)
- Business Operations Manager
