Staff Lab Automation Engineer

Guardant Health-posted 7 months ago
$140,800 - $193,600/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Palo Alto, CA
Ambulatory Health Care Services
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As a Staff Lab Automation Engineer, you will join an innovative group of engineers. You'll help lead projects in all aspects of reagent and assay automation development, collaborate on obtaining requirements, optimizing automated workflows, troubleshooting, and validating a final workflow. You'll be able to use and grow your molecular biology and biochemistry knowledge with an eye towards increasing the reliability, throughput, sustainability, and performance of NGS sample processing using advanced liquid handling platforms. You will be working both independently and collaborating with other Automation Engineers and Scientists on a Technology Development team to increase the future capabilities of multiple products.

  • Program, test, troubleshoot, and optimize robotic liquid handling workstations integrated robotic systems.
  • Build knowledge on hardware and software on multiple types of laboratory automated liquid handlers, such as Hamilton STAR, Agilent Bravo, Lynx among others.
  • Program and configure Brooks PreciseFlex robotic arm systems using Guidance Development Environment.
  • Develop and implement communication protocols to facilitate data exchange between laboratory devices and automation software.
  • Analyze multi-instrument workflows, identify bottlenecks, and develop solutions to improve efficiency, throughput, cost, and quality.
  • Lead meetings, deliver presentations and create reports for communicating new product development efforts.
  • Prepare documentation for equipment validation and operating procedures and ensure successful lab implementation within a regulated environment.
  • Mentor and guide Lab Automation Engineers on technical efforts.
  • Take ownership for designing and outlining milestones needed to enable a product or product feature to follow a timeline.
  • Collaborate closely with other development, operation, and quality teams.
  • BS degree in engineering or science with 8-10 years of related experience, MS with 5-8 years of related work experience, or PhD with 3-5 years of industry experience.
  • Hands-on experience with operating and programming liquid handling robotics platforms (e.g. Agilent Bravo).
  • Experience developing integrated automation systems and workflows.
  • Experience working with Brooks PreciseFlex robotic arms (or equivalent).
  • Experience developing interfaces between lab automation and Laboratory Information Management (LIMS) databases.
  • Experience streamlining workflows, developing automated laboratory processes, and instrumentation systems from designing concepts to process validation and implementation.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, VB.NET, or Python.
  • Knowledge and experience in XML and JSON for data exchange.
  • Experience with next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays and working within regulated environments (IVD, LDT, etc.) preferred.
  • Strong communication and collaborative skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team with diverse scientific, engineering, operational, and regulatory disciplines.
  • Base salary range for this full-time position is $140,800 to $193,600.
  • Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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