Director of Wet Lab Engineering & Automation

Generate Biomedicines; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Generate Biomedicines is seeking a Director of Wet Lab Engineering to lead a multidisciplinary team spanning hardware, optics, microfluidics, automation, and software. This leader will define the laboratory of the future, building instruments and integrated systems that connect experiments with data, computation, and AI to accelerate therapeutic discovery.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical depth with people leadership, guiding 10–15 engineers, partnering with scientists, and delivering

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with hardware, optics, microfluidics, automation, and software.
• Comfort partnering with scientists and translating needs into systems.
• Experience in robotics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team of engineers across hardware, optics, and software.
• Set the technical vision for Wet Lab Engineering.
• Drive bespoke instruments and integrated systems from concept to deployment.
• Advance autonomous, agentic laboratory operations.
• Collaborate with wet-lab scientists, biologists, computational scientists, and ML teams to translate needs into working systems.
• Foster creativity, technical excellence, and rapid experimentation.

Skills

People management

Robotics

Biotech workflows

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

AI/ML familiarity

Education

PhD or Master’s in physical engineering

Job description

Generate Biomedicines is seeking a Director of Wet Lab Engineering to lead a multidisciplinary team spanning hardware, optics, microfluidics, automation, and software. This leader will define the laboratory of the future, building instruments and integrated systems that connect experiments with data, computation, and AI to accelerate therapeutic discovery.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical depth with people leadership, guiding 10–15 engineers, partnering with scientists, and delivering