Lab Operations Lead — Robotics & High-Throughput Science

Axiom Bio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom Bio in San Francisco, CA seeks a hands-on Laboratory Operations lead to build and run scalable lab operations enabling massive, high-quality datasets for AI models predicting human drug outcomes.

You will own procurement, inventory, and facilities coordination, ensuring uptime and safety while partnering with engineers to implement automation and data-traceable workflows across cell culture, imaging, and mass spectrometry.

Qualifications

• Extensive lab operations experience at scale.
• Strong ownership and proactive problem-solving.
• Meticulous attention to reagent handling and records.
• Experience with high-throughput workflows or robotics.
• Familiarity with primary human cells and biosafety basics.

Responsibilities

• Build and run laboratory operations enabling scientists and robotics engineers to generate large, high-quality datasets for AI models predicting human drug outcomes.
• Coordinate equipment installation, utilities, vendor services, commissioning, and readiness across cell culture, imaging, automation, and mass spectrometry.
• Own procurement, inventory, and supply planning for cells, reagents, labware, and consumables to prevent shortages.
• Keep instruments and robotic workcells running via preventive maintenance, calibration, and service contracts.
• Coordinate experiment schedules, instrument capacity, staffing, and material prep for high-throughput operations.
• Establish traceability for cells, reagents, donors, lots, plates, and experiments.

Skills

Lab operations

Automation & throughput

Cell culture

Inventory management

SOP development

EH&S coordination

Data analytics

Tools

LIMS

Barcode systems

Instrument calibration software

Job description

Axiom Bio in San Francisco, CA seeks a hands-on Laboratory Operations lead to build and run scalable lab operations enabling massive, high-quality datasets for AI models predicting human drug outcomes.

You will own procurement, inventory, and facilities coordination, ensuring uptime and safety while partnering with engineers to implement automation and data-traceable workflows across cell culture, imaging, and mass spectrometry.