Remote Global Field Scientist: Liquid Handling & Automation

Radiometer; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Molecular Devices, a Danaher operating company, seeks a Sr. Global Field Application Scientist to support CellXpress.ai workflows and automated liquid handling in North America.

Remote-friendly, with 50–70% travel, you’ll lead scripting, testing, and customer-ready deployments across labs and teams. Responsibilities include scripting, workflow optimization, pre‑sales support, and cross‑functional collaboration with service, software, engineering, and product teams to ensure robust automation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a related scientific or technical discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of application experience supporting laboratory automation, automated liquid handling, cell culture automation, or related life science instrumentation.
• Hands‑on experience with automated liquid handling method development, scripting, testing, optimization, and troubleshooting; Hamilton platform experience required.
• Experience translating manual laboratory protocols into automated application workflows, including workflow mapping, labware/consumable selection, and acceptance criteria documentation.
• Must be based in North America and able to travel approximately 50‑70%, including overnight and international travel.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the application and liquid handling subject matter expert for CellXpress.ai customer evaluations, implementations, workflow optimization, and adoption.
• Develop, test, optimize, document, and troubleshoot liquid handling scripts and automated workflows, with emphasis on Hamilton liquid handling platforms.
• Translate customer cell culture protocols, laboratory processes, and acceptance criteria into reliable, repeatable, and scalable CellXpress.ai workflows.
• Support pre‑sales technical discovery, workflow assessments, feasibility evaluations, product demonstrations, customer presentations, installations, training, and post‑installation optimization.
• Diagnose and resolve application, scripting, workflow, labware, consumable, software, and hardware‑related issues, coordinating escalation with service, software, engineering, and product teams as needed.
• Create and maintain workflow maps, scripting records, method specifications, training materials, troubleshooting guidance, and customer handoff documentation.
• Provide approximately 80% support to North American customers and commercial teams and 20% support to global customers, partners, and internal teams, with approximately 50‑70% travel.

Skills

Life sciences application experience

Automated liquid handling scripting

Hamilton platform experience

Travel 50-70%

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Life Sciences or related field

Tools

Hamilton platform

CellXpress.ai workflows

Job description

Molecular Devices, a Danaher operating company, seeks a Sr. Global Field Application Scientist to support CellXpress.ai workflows and automated liquid handling in North America.

Remote-friendly, with 50–70% travel, you’ll lead scripting, testing, and customer-ready deployments across labs and teams. Responsibilities include scripting, workflow optimization, pre‑sales support, and cross‑functional collaboration with service, software, engineering, and product teams to ensure robust automation