Founding Robotics & Automation Engineer, High-Throughput Bio

Axiom; South San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Axiom is building the world's most advanced automated biology lab in South San Francisco. You will develop software to control, orchestrate, and monitor laboratory instruments and robotic workflows, integrating diverse devices into end-to-end automated processes.

You will work closely with scientists to translate complex assays into reliable, scalable automation, designing systems for scheduling, execution, monitoring, and quality control while capturing complete experimental records across a

Formación

• Exceptional coding ability and a strong foundation in software engineering.
• Bridge software, robotics, hardware, and biology to build automated experimental systems.
• Obsessive focus on reliability, reproducibility, data quality, and attention to detail.
• Drive to push beyond conventional laboratory automation to develop better approaches.
• Strong systems thinking to understand and optimize end-to-end workflows.
• Comfort working hands-on with unfamiliar instruments, debugging hardware, and integration problems.
• Ability to take ambitious projects from concept to fully operational systems with minimal oversight.
• Obsessive technical curiosity for robotics, software, biology, and drug discovery.
• Strong communication and collaboration with scientists, engineers, and lab operators.

Responsabilidades

• Build an extraordinarily automated, high-throughput biology lab from the ground up
• Develop software to control, orchestrate, and monitor laboratory instruments, robotics, and experimental workflows
• Integrate liquid handlers, robotic arms, incubators, imaging systems, sequencers, mass spectrometers, and other scientific instruments into end-to-end automated workflows
• Work closely with scientists to translate complex biological assays into reliable, scalable automated protocols
• Develop systems for experiment scheduling, execution, monitoring, error recovery, and quality control
• Build infrastructure to capture complete experimental records, including instrument commands, metadata, logs, timestamps, and raw data
• Optimize laboratory workflows for extreme throughput, reproducibility, data quality, and minimal human intervention
• Transfer and automate advanced biological assays across Axiom's global network of partner laboratories

Conocimientos

Python

Software engineering

APIs

Asynchronous programming

Distributed systems

Herramientas

PyLabRobot

Hamilton VENUS

Tecan EVOware

Opentrons

SiLA 2

Laboratory APIs

Descripción del empleo

Axiom is building the world's most advanced automated biology lab in South San Francisco. You will develop software to control, orchestrate, and monitor laboratory instruments and robotic workflows, integrating diverse devices into end-to-end automated processes.

You will work closely with scientists to translate complex assays into reliable, scalable automation, designing systems for scheduling, execution, monitoring, and quality control while capturing complete experimental records across a