What if you could join a rapidly growing company and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients through looking at and treating disease in a revolutionary way?
What this position is all about: Genomics team at Cellarity Inc. seeks a Laboratory Automation Engineer to work as the primary engineering resource at a small (100 person) and growing drug discovery startup. The role is focused on laboratory automation and instrumentation, including programming lab automation, as well as designing, building, integrating, maintaining and improving automated methodologies for laboratory biological processes.
The work is hands-on and will require skills in a broad range of engineering disciplines including liquid handling, protocol development, troubleshooting electrical and mechanical systems, and providing operating system validation/verification. The successful candidate will work closely with other researchers in biology, chemistry, technology, sequencing, and machine learning. The candidate must be a creative problem solver, be detail and process oriented, have excellent communication skills, and be eager to work in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment.
What you would be responsible for:
Manage, plan, develop, and execute laboratory automation projects for a broad range of lab-based workflows, including: next generation sequencing, cell culture, qPCR, etc.
Act as point person for laboratory hardware, QC and preventative maintenance across the organization
Implement laboratory instrument software and tools to drive high-throughput processes
Optimize and validate protocols to support scale-up
Serve as an expert resource to communicate and advise on strategic and tactical issues in automation and engineering
Explore, test and as appropriate bring in technology capabilities
What experiences will you need:
Degree or equivalent professional experience in mechanical or electrical engineering, or biological science related fields.
4+ years' experience in implementation and operation of automated systems, including designing, building and deploying automated laboratory workflows in life sciences or clinical laboratory setting
Professional level knowledge of engineering and biological principles, particularly in genomics and DNA sequencing.
Expertise in programming Hamilton instrumentation required
Familiarity with a wide range of biological laboratory instrumentation
Experience with 3D printing and fabrication a plus
Proven ability to troubleshoot technical and scientific issues, both individually and as part of a team