Neuroscience Technician Intern

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Neuroscience Technician Intern to join our team and contribute directly to our in vivo research program. This is a hands-on, lab-based summer internship for a student or early-career candidate with stereotactic injection experience and an interest in translational neuroscience.

You will work alongside our research team to support and advance experiments that are central to our technology development — with real scientific impact from day one.

What You’ll Do 

• Perform stereotactic surgeries for intracranial injections in mice (viral vectors, nanoparticles, or other agents)
• Maintain animal colony and support basic husbandry under IACUC protocols
• Contribute to ongoing in vivo experiments and participate in experimental design discussions
• Maintain detailed, organized lab records and surgical logs
• Run behavioral assays to assess motor and cognitive outcomes (a plus)
• Perform histological processing, tissue sectioning, staining, and imaging (a plus)
• Support data collection and preliminary analysis
• Collaborate across the research team to keep experiments moving efficiently

What You Bring

Must-have experience

• Currently enrolled in a bachelors program in Neuroscience, Biology, Bioengineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience with stereotactic injections in mice — this is a hard requirement
• Proficiency in rodent handling and aseptic surgical technique
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow established protocols precisely
• Comfortable working independently in a lab environment
• Location: Palo Alto and Mountain View lab sites (on-site)

Strong plus

• Experience running behavioral assays in rodents (open field, rotarod, sucrose preference, fear conditioning, etc.)
• Histology skills: tissue sectioning (cryostat or vibratome), immunofluorescence staining, confocal or fluorescence imaging
• Familiarity with viral vectors (AAV serotypes, injection titers, expression timelines)
• Experience with any in vivo recording or imaging modalities