Scientific Safety Alliance

Scientific Safety Alliance (SSA) exists to Accelerate Science. Delightfully. We're a 100% founder- and employee-owned company that has acquired 19 companies in just over 2.5 years and is rising on Inc. Magazine's list of America's fastest-growing privately held companies in both 2024 and 2025.

We serve the life sciences and biotech industries — pharmaceutical, biotech, hospital, and research facilities — keeping the controlled environments and precision instruments behind critical scientific work compliant, accurate, and ready. Our mission is simple: remove the friction so our customers can focus on advancing science.

Calyx is the SSA operating company you'd be joining. Our technicians support Healthcare Technology Management (HTM), Clinical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering departments at some of the most prestigious healthcare systems and biotech organizations across the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and Midwest.

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Basic math: percentages, measurements, unit conversions
• Strong reading comprehension — you can follow detailed written instructions precisely
• Some hands-on technical aptitude (from school, military, trade work, or a serious hobby)
• Willingness to travel approximately 3 weeks per month, Monday through Thursday, with weekends home
• Comfortable wearing a sport jacket on customer sites — we provide your first two
• Ability to provide vaccination records: Hepatitis B, MMR, Tuberculosis, Varicella, and Influenza, or willingness to meet customer vendor requirements
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation
• Authorized to work in the United States

• Precision calibration of biomedical and laboratory equipment
• Use of oscilloscopes, electronic analyzers, and electro-mechanical instrumentation
• Physics fundamentals you'll use every day: electronics, physiological measurements, airflow, liquid flow, mass, dimensional, temperature, humidity, sound, light, and pressure
• Writing and following calibration procedures and test methods
• Communicating effectively with customers from technician to director level
• Documentation and compliance standards in regulated environments

• Backgrounds in electronics, engineering technology, instrumentation, biomedical equipment, or a related technical field — 2-year and 4-year degrees both welcome
• Military transitioners, especially those with electronics, calibration, or biomedical equipment backgrounds
• Trade school grads in electronics, HVAC, instrumentation, or similar
• Career changers with strong mechanical or electronic aptitude and a real desire to learn

You don't need to know calibration. You do need to be reliable, precise, curious, and comfortable on the road.

• Paid training — earn while you learn a high-demand precision technical trade
• Equity ownership in SSA — every team member has a stake in the outcome
• Real career path — many of our senior techs came up through this exact track
• Stability — life sciences and healthcare don't slow down