Automation Engineer III

The Role

Generate:Biomedicines is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Automation Engineer to join our team at the interface of lab automation, instrumentation, integrated workcells, custom hardware, and protein therapeutics discovery. This role will be central to sustaining and advancing Generate’s wet lab platform, with particular emphasis on automated workflows spanning DNA production, protein production, cell culture, and screening & validation assays.

Justification

This role will help extend Generate’s capabilities beyond immediate automation support by building and integrating custom instrument capabilities into the wet lab ecosystem and partnering on adjacent engineering efforts where thoughtful hardware, fluidics, or systems integration can unlock better science. The role sits within an organization of highly motivated scientists and engineers where collaboration and communication across technical disciplines drives the team's success.

Requirements

• BS + with 5+ years industry experience in lab automation and analytical & process instrumentation development, MS with 3+ years industry experience, or PhD in engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, life sciences, or a related field.
• Strong experience with liquid handlers and integrated workcells, including platforms such as Biomek, Tecan, Lynx, Hamilton, Opentrons, and/or similar systems.
• Experience owning workflows end-to-end, from method design and execution through debugging, documentation, and operational support.
• A strong drive to proactively hand-off workflows to scientists in a way that improves adoption, increases autonomy, and effective use of automation tools.
• Exceptional communication skills and proactivity to facilitate interactions between scientists, engineers, and other stakeholders that span a range of technical and scientific languages.
• Experience developing and/or deploying wet lab-facing agentic applications, e.g. closed-loop experimental systems.
• Experience building, integrating, or supporting custom instrumentation, fluidic systems, and/or microfluidic devices in an R&D environment.

Qualifications

• BS + with 5+ years industry experience in lab automation and analytical & process instrumentation development, MS with 3+ years industry experience, or PhD in engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, life sciences, or a related field.
• Strong experience with liquid handlers and integrated workcells, including platforms such as Biomek, Tecan, Lynx, Hamilton, Opentrons, and/or similar systems.
• Experience owning workflows end-to-end, from method design and execution through debugging, documentation, and operational support.
• A strong drive to proactively hand-off workflows to scientists in a way that improves adoption, increases autonomy, and effective use of automation tools.
• Exceptional communication skills and proactivity to facilitate interactions between scientists, engineers, and other stakeholders that span a range of technical and scientific languages.
• Experience developing and/or deploying wet lab-facing agentic applications, e.g. closed-loop experimental systems.
• Experience building, integrating, or supporting custom instrumentation, fluidic systems, and/or microfluidic devices in an R&D environment.

Skills

• Strong expertise in liquid handling, workcell automation, troubleshooting, scripting, and method development.
• Experience building, adapting, or integrating instrumentation in close partnership with scientists and the rest of the engineering team.
• Strong drive to execute at a high technical level while thinking end-to-end about building scalable support through training, documentation, and handoff practices that increase scientist independence.

Benefits

Generate:Biomedicines is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Generate:Biomedicines does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Generate:Biomedicines or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Company’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Generate:Biomedicines and the Company will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

Pay

Per Year Salary Range $100,000—$140,000 USD