Biomarker measurement platform for pharmaceutical research and clinical diagnostics
Meso Scale Discovery manufactures immunoassay instruments and reagent kits for high-throughput biomarker profiling, with a tech stack anchored in LabVIEW, C++, Python, and Salesforce Service Cloud. The company is actively scaling manufacturing (process experiments, capacity expansion, lot-to-lot consistency) while modernizing go-to-market infrastructure (Salesforce Service Cloud architecture) and expanding into clinical diagnostics and companion testing. Hiring velocity across engineering, research, and sales reflects simultaneous pushes on product development, regulatory compliance (FedRAMP reauthorization), and customer expansion in academia and enterprise.
Notable leadership hires: Logistics Director, Business Development Director, Director Engineering, Sales Director
Meso Scale Discovery develops and manufactures proprietary immunoassay instruments and reagent kits for biomarker analysis in pharmaceutical research, clinical diagnostics, and personalized medicine. The core offering is a multiplexing platform that enables researchers to measure multiple biomarkers simultaneously from a single biological sample. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, the company serves pharmaceutical companies, government institutions, universities, and clinical laboratories globally. The current organizational focus spans three vectors: scaling manufacturing processes and capacity to meet demand, advancing new assay and instrumentation platforms, and expanding into regulated clinical diagnostics and companion diagnostics applications.
LabVIEW, C++, Python, MATLAB, Salesforce (Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Field Service Lightning), Marketo, and CAD tools (SolidWorks, AutoCAD). Specializes in assay software and instrumentation control.
Yes, engineering has 38 open roles across seniority levels. Leadership openings include a Director of Engineering and senior/mid-level engineers focusing on instrumentation and assay platform development.
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