Lab Automation Engineer — Automate Biotech Workflows

Capable Labs; San Francisco (CA); In loco; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Generous equity options

Wellness budget

Healthcare: medical/dental/vision

401K plans

Daily team dinners

Visa sponsorship where appropriate

Descrizione del lavoro

Capable Labs is seeking a hands-on Automation Engineer in San Francisco to design, build, and troubleshoot automated drug-development workflows. You will work directly with chemists, biologists, and fellow engineers to turn manual processes into reliable automated systems that move from concept through prototype, testing, and iteration.

You will design electromechanical and fluidic systems, select components, develop control sequences, and integrate instruments with quality workflows.

Competenze

• Hands-on experience designing, building, testing, or maintaining automation systems or laboratory hardware.
• Strong background in mechanical, electrical, fluidics, sensing, or instrument integration.
• Systematic troubleshooting across hardware, controls, and process conditions.
• Ability to own a subsystem and explain engineering tradeoffs to scientists and other engineers.
• Background in mechanical/electrical/chemical/biomedical engineering or equivalent hands-on work.
• Curiosity and ability to learn across disciplines; not required to cover every area.

Mansioni

• Design and build electromechanical and fluidic systems for automated synthesis, liquid handling, and lab workflows.
• Select and integrate pumps, valves, tubing, reactors, sensors, heaters, motors, and controllers.
• Develop controls for sequencing, flow, pressure, temperature, mixing, sensing, and fault detection and recovery.
• Connect instruments, analytical systems, sample tracking, and quality-control workflows into reliable automated processes.
• Build and debug prototypes, identify failures, and translate test results into improvements.
• Collaborate with scientists to improve throughput, reproducibility, purity, yield, and sample quality.
• Write test procedures, define acceptance criteria, and document system performance and operation.

Conoscenze

Automation systems

Mechanical/Electrical design

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership

Learning agility

Formazione

Engineering degree or equivalent hands-on experience

Descrizione del lavoro

Capable Labs is seeking a hands-on Automation Engineer in San Francisco to design, build, and troubleshoot automated drug-development workflows. You will work directly with chemists, biologists, and fellow engineers to turn manual processes into reliable automated systems that move from concept through prototype, testing, and iteration.

You will design electromechanical and fluidic systems, select components, develop control sequences, and integrate instruments with quality workflows.