Careers

If you want to contribute to meaningful, high-impact work that protects the future of biotechnology, we'd like to hear from you.

Open Roles

SecureDNA is building the global infrastructure needed to ensure that DNA synthesis can be used safely, responsibly, and without compromising scientific progress. Our team combines cryptography, security engineering, computational biology, and policy expertise to deliver the world's only free, privacy-preserving DNA screening system. Our work is grounded in scientific rigor, technical excellence, and a commitment to global biosecurity.

We periodically hire for roles, however, if no roles are available you can still contact us with a general expression of interest.

Part-Time Outreach & Onboarding Contractor

Organization: SecureDNA (nonprofit)

Type: Part-time contractor (~20 hrs/week)

Location: Remote

Start: Immediate

The Role

We're looking for a part-time contractor to support outreach, onboarding, and stakeholder engagement. This is a hands-on role helping us grow adoption of our screening system, improve the experience for new users, and keep our communications and documentation sharp.

Day-to-day includes:
  • Conducting outreach to potential users and partners (synthesis providers, research institutions, biotech companies)
  • Supporting onboarding of new organizations onto the SecureDNA screening system
  • Reviewing, rewriting, and improving onboarding documentation and user-facing materials
  • Helping manage stakeholder communications and follow-ups across global time zones
  • Assisting with coordination around policy conversations and conference engagement
  • Tracking and organizing outreach pipelines and contacts
What We're Looking For
  • Familiarity with biosecurity, synthetic biology, or adjacent fields. You don't need to be a deep technical expert, but you should be able to hold a conversation about DNA synthesis screening without your eyes glazing over.
  • Strong written communication. Clear, direct, no jargon for the sake of jargon.
  • Self-directed and comfortable working independently in a small-team environment.
  • Organized and reliable. We're a lean operation and need someone who follows through.
  • Grit. Outreach means persistence, creative problem-solving, and not taking silence personally.
  • Bonus: experience with stakeholder engagement, policy communities, or the EA/biosecurity ecosystem.
What We Can Offer
  • Meaningful work at the intersection of biosecurity, biotech, and global policy
  • Exposure to an incredible network across biosecurity and synthetic biology
  • Flexibility in scheduling and work arrangement
  • Potential for the role to evolve. We have technical and policy-oriented work on the horizon as additional funding comes online.
A Note on Fit

This role is primarily outreach and onboarding support. If you're looking for something purely technical or research-focused, this probably isn't the right fit right now. That said, still reach out, because we may have adjacent opportunities or can connect you with partner organizations doing complementary work.

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