Updated July 23, 2026

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Cell Culture Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ cell culture jobs at companies offering generous PTO and compressed weeks—full pay and a better work-life balance. 13 new this week. Hiring companies include University of Pennsylvania, Amgen, and Merck.

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10+

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Research Specialist A

University of Pennsylvania

OnsitePhiladelphia, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Associate Expression & Fermentation

21h

Amgen

HybridMunich, Germany

63 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO€57k – €78k

Senior Engineer I, Manufacturing Sciences - Cell Culture

Biogen

HybridResearch Triangle Park, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$98k – $127k

Associate Specialist, Engineering

Merck

HybridDurham, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Specialist A / Laboratory Technician

University of Pennsylvania

OnsitePhiladelphia, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Senior Scientist, Respiratory Biology (Discovery Research)

Merck

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Process Development Associate - Biological and Structural Characterization

Amgen

HybridThousand Oaks, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Fellow, Chemical Biology & Proteomics

Biogen

HybridCambridge, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Scientist, Analytical Development - Stem Cell & Metabolomics

Genentech

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Associate Scientist

Sanofi

HybridCambridge, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Scientist, Immunology Discovery

Merck

HybridSan Diego, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Sr. Associate Scientist, Neuromuscular Research

Biogen

HybridCambridge, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$75k – $98k

Principal Scientist

Sanofi

HybridWaltham, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Associate in Bioengineering

19d

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Research Associate in Biofabrication

27d

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Research Senior Technician - Microbial Infection and Immunity

10d

Ohio State University

OnsiteColumbus, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Research Specialist D

10d

University of Pennsylvania

OnsitePhiladelphia, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Senior Research Associate, High Throughput Biology

13d

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

HybridSan Diego, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$75k – $113k

Scientist - Oncology

13d

Amgen

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Associate, Biology

14d

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Cell Culture on this page include University of Pennsylvania, Amgen, and Merck. Cell Culture roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Cell Culture is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Cell Culture roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Cell Culture across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Cell Culture hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Cell Culture roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Cell Culture candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Cell Culture on current listings.