Research Technician I - Stuart Lab
Seattle, WAResearch$21.3–31.09/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Stuart Lab is recruiting a laboratory technician to support research on malaria immunology and the cell and molecular biology of protozoan pathogens. The work aims to illuminate immune responses to malaria vaccines and advance understanding of microbial pathogens and their interactions with hosts. The successful candidate must work accurately and independently as well as collaboratively. Prior cell culture and laboratory techniques are highly desired; interest in basic and translational science is desirable.
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Full job description
The Stuart lab is recruiting a highly motivated laboratory technician for our research projects on malaria immunology and cell and molecular biology of protozoan pathogens. The successful candidate must be able to work accurately and independently, but also with others in a highly collaborative environment. Prior experience in cell culture, standard cell and molecular and immunological techniques is highly desired. A willingness and ability to learn new techniques is required and a deep interest in basic and translational science is desirable. Our lab is working to illuminate immune responses to malaria vaccines that can aid vaccine development and to advance fundamental cellular and molecular understanding of microbial pathogens and their interaction with the host. We welcome passionate, articulate, and dynamic researchers to join our mission.
The research is conducted in the highly interactive Seattle research environment that includes the closely located University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Please apply via the Institute’s career webpage or email [email protected]
Required Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in an appropriate field of science or technology OR college-level coursework in biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, or in a related science curriculum AND equivalent lab experience.
Required Credentials
N/A.
Preferred
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Research experience in biochemistry, molecular biology, and tissue culture techniques.
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Data entry and/or word processing experience
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Experience in analyzing data using spreadsheets and statistical analysi
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Two (2) years experience in a laboratory/research setting
Compensation Range
$21.30 - $31.09 per hour
Salary Information
This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided.
Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants
This compensation range is specific to Seattle, positions located outside of Seattle may be compensated differently depending on various factors .
Benefits Information
Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website www.seattlechildrens.org/careers/benefits .
About Us
Hope. Care. Cure. These three simple words capture what we do at Seattle Children’s – to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Are you ready to engage with a mission-driven organization that is life-changing to many, and touches the hearts of all? #HOPECARECURE
Our founding promise to the community is as valid today as it was over a century ago: we will care for all children in our region, regardless of the families’ ability to pay. Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serve as the pediatric and adolescent, academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.
U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Seattle Children’s among the nation’s best children’s hospitals. For more than a decade, Seattle Children’s has been nationally recognized in key specialty areas. We are honored to be one of the nation’s very best places to care for children and the top-ranked pediatric hospital in Washington and the Pacific Northwest.
As a Magnet designated institution, we recognize the importance of hiring and developing great talent to provide best-in-class care to the patients and families we serve. Our organizational DNA takes form in our core values: Compassion, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Equity and Innovation. Whether it’s delivering frontline care to our patients in a kind and caring manner, practicing the highest standards of quality and safety, or being relentlessly curious as we work towards eradicating childhood diseases, these values are the fabric of our culture and community. The future starts here.
Our Commitment
Seattle Children’s welcomes people of all experiences, backgrounds, and thoughts as this is what drives our spirit of inquiry and allows us to better connect with our patients and families. Our organization recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes based on merit without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
The people who work at Seattle Children’s are members of a community that seeks to respect and celebrate all the qualities that make each of us unique. Each of us is empowered to be ourselves.
Seattle Children’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Workplace and Affirmative Action Employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,192 open Laboratory Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$21.3–31.09/hr
- Washington median$27–38/hr22 hourly ranges
- US median$22–26/hr1,066 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $26.20/hr, is 18% below the Washington median midpoint ($32/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Laboratory Technician hourly ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 32 open Laboratory Technician jobs in Washington and 2,192 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Labcorp5 open
- University of Washington4 open
- Stryker3 open
- Experience
- Laboratory Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (903 postings).
- Education
- 286 of the 2,192 open Laboratory Technician jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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