Automation Engineer, Wet Lab

We care more about how you solve engineering problems than about a specific degree or career path.

You should:

• Have evidence of excellence: 4+ years of experience in lab automation, robotics, or other automation projects involving real hardware - or an equivalent track record of serious hobby projects where you have built, modified, automated, and debugged physical systems yourself.
• Be a tinkerer: someone who enjoys opening the box, understanding how something works, modifying it, and building something better when necessary.
• Be comfortable with robotics, sensors, actuators, mechanical design, electronics, embedded systems, or related technologies.
• Be able to move quickly between disciplines and collaborate with wet-lab scientists, automation specialists, software engineers, and ML engineers.
• Be comfortable with ambiguity and high autonomy. We define outcomes; you have substantial freedom to determine how to achieve them.
• Combine creative engineering with a strong focus on reliability and repeatability.

Experience with laboratory automation, bioreactors, liquid handling, CAD, 3D printing, Python, PLCs, machine vision, or industrial automation is a plus - but not a requirement.

This is a demanding job. The problems are hard, the ownership is real, and there will not always be a playbook to follow. We are looking for someone who enjoys that responsibility rather than avoids it. We want to see the fire in you: the curiosity, energy, and determination to keep digging until something works.