Updated July 25, 2026

22 open positions

LIMS Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 22+ lims jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 14 new this week. Hiring companies include Merck, Biogen, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

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Director, Scientific Solutions

10d

TetraScience

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Laboratory Technician

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteCatlettsburg, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Scientist 2, gCell – Centralized Mammalian Cell Bank for Research

21h

Genentech

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$86k – $159k

Research Specialist A

University of Pennsylvania

OnsitePhiladelphia, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Associate Director, Project Management

18h

Merck

HybridBeijing, China

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Associate Manufacturing I

18h

Amgen

HybridSingapore, Singapore

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Regional Stability Management Manager

21h

Sanofi

HybridBudapest, Hungary

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Quality Control Senior Associate

Amgen

HybridThousand Oaks, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Master Data Steward

Sanofi

HybridHyderabad, India

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Analyst in Quality Control

Merck

HybridVienna, Austria

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Specialist, Lab Execution System, Tester

Merck

HybridHyderabad, India

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Sr Associate I, Quality Control Microbiology

Biogen

HybridResearch Triangle Park, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Expert Master Data - Quality & Performance

Sanofi

HybridHyderabad, India

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

QC Sr. Associate I (Software Developer Specialist)

Genentech

HybridOceanside, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Associate Director, Shift Quality Operations

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

HybridBoston, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Associate Director, Analytical Quality Assurance

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

HybridBoston, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Scientific Data Architect

TetraScience

HybridBasel, Switzerland

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

QC Manager, Sample and Lab Equipment Management

1mo

Biogen

HybridResearch Triangle Park, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$111k – $149k

Sr. Engineer I/II, Automation (DeltaV and Syncade)

2mo

Biogen

HybridResearch Triangle Park, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$93k – $121k

GMP Operational Quality Senior Specialist (Stability)

1mo

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

HybridBoston, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Manager, Manufacturing Automation

Merck

HybridWilmington, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Associate Director, Metrologist and Compliance Lead, Medical Devices and Combination Products

Merck

HybridRahway, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Lims on this page include Merck, Biogen, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Lims 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 Lims is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Lims roles span the full seniority range — we list 22 open roles requiring Lims 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 — Lims 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. Lims 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 Lims 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 Lims on current listings.