Founding Robotics Engineer: High-Throughput Lab Automation

Digitailor; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom is building an extraordinarily automated biology lab to generate immense experimental data for predictive human outcomes. You will write software that controls robotics, orchestrates workflows, and ensures reliable data capture across instruments and systems.

Join a team translating complex assays into scalable, end-to-end automated platforms, integrating Labware APIs, imaging, sequencing, and mass spectrometry for safer, faster drug discovery.

Qualifications

• Exceptional coding ability and a strong foundation in software engineering.
• Ability to bridge software, robotics, hardware, and biology to build automated systems.
• Commitment to reliability, reproducibility, data quality, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Build an automated, high-throughput biology lab from the ground up.
• Develop software to control and monitor laboratory instruments and robots.
• Integrate diverse instruments into end-to-end automated workflows.
• Collaborate with scientists to translate assays into scalable protocols.
• Develop scheduling, execution, monitoring, and data capture systems.

Skills

Python

APIs

Asynchronous programming

Distributed systems

Software engineering

Tools

PyLabRobot

Hamilton VENUS

Tecan EVOware

Opentrons

SiLA 2

Job description

Axiom is building an extraordinarily automated biology lab to generate immense experimental data for predictive human outcomes. You will write software that controls robotics, orchestrates workflows, and ensures reliable data capture across instruments and systems.

Join a team translating complex assays into scalable, end-to-end automated platforms, integrating Labware APIs, imaging, sequencing, and mass spectrometry for safer, faster drug discovery.