Automation Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• BS and 7+ years of industry experience in lab automation and analytical and process instrumentation development; MS and 5+ years of industry experience; or a PhD in engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, life sciences, or a related field.
• Proven leadership within a wet lab and an engineering team, including project management and direct reports.
• Strong experience with liquid handlers and integrated workcells, such as Biomek, Tecan, Lynx, Hamilton, Opentrons, HighRes, Retisoft, or similar systems.
• Experience owning workflows end-to-end, from method design and execution through debugging, documentation, and operational support.
• Ability and motivation to hand off workflows to scientists in ways that improve adoption, autonomy, and effective use of automation tools.
• Exceptional communication and proactive collaboration with scientists, engineers, lab operations, and other stakeholders across technical and scientific disciplines.
• Experience developing and/or deploying wet lab-facing agentic applications, such as closed-loop experimental systems.
• Experience building, integrating, or supporting custom instrumentation, fluidic systems, and/or microfluidic devices in an R&D environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting DNA production, protein production, protein purification, cell culture, functional and binding assays, and/or related molecular biology workflows at scale.
• Significant experience with HighRes, Retisoft, or other advanced scheduling and orchestration systems and integrated hardware environments.
• Experience supporting platform transfer, vendor coordination, user training, or expansion of methods across multiple instruments and lab locations.
• Experience working in a highly collaborative, matrixed research environment where automation, platform engineering, and discovery teams are tightly integrated.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and integrate custom instrument capabilities, including in-house-built hardware and fluidic systems, into scientist-facing wet lab workflows.
• Own critical automation and instrumentation problems end-to-end, including method design, system improvement, troubleshooting during active runs, vendor coordination, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Drive reliability, troubleshooting, and method development for DNA and protein production and assay/readout workflows on integrated workcells.
• Improve throughput, parallelization, and data quality across platform and pipeline programs.
• Partner with scientists to provide in-lab support, unblock experiments, and identify automation- or engineering-enabled capabilities that reduce timelines for production, scale-up, and future platform workflows.
• Identify and prioritize lab automation projects across the automation engineering team and engage key stakeholders as collaborators.
• Manage automation engineers’ day-to-day activities and long-term projects, providing guidance and appropriate resourcing.
• Develop training, documentation, and handoff practices that improve scientist adoption, autonomy, and effective use of automation tools.

Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility
• Equity compensation
• Competitive benefits package