Scientific Infrastructure Engineer III

Emerald Cloud Lab; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerald Cloud Lab seeks a Scientist for its Scientific Infrastructure team to design and implement software that coordinates automated wet-lab experiments and data workflows. The role emphasizes building reliable systems and supporting rapid experimentation in a remote, software-driven lab environment.

You will work with Mathematica and diverse instrumentation, learn programming, and help scale the Emerald platform for pharma, startups, and academic labs worldwide.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. degree in Chemistry or Biology.
• 2 years of experience in roles related to Scientific Infrastructure/Automation or Research & Development Infrastructure.
• Experience with Mathematica Coding.
• Comfortable with rigorous data analysis and experimental design.
• Willing to learn programming (no prior experience required).
• Willing to learn robotic automation (no prior experience required).
• Experience troubleshooting experiments and instrumentation.
• Experience across diverse experiment types and rapid skill development.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and developing new software solutions to increase speed or reliability of laboratory operations.
• Maintaining advanced laboratory support systems including inventory management and asset tracking.
• Updating SLL, Emerald’s software library, to improve development experience for internal and external users.

Skills

Mathematica Coding

Data analysis

Experimental design

Programming (learning)

Robotic automation (learning)

Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry or Biology

Tools

Wolfram Mathematica

Job description

The Emerald Cloud Laboratory (ECL) enables life scientists to move out of the lab, and to conduct research entirely from a computer. Stepping away from manual completion of experiments at the bench, scientists on the ECL leverage the remote, automated execution of all standard biology and chemistry experiments in Emerald’s industrial lab facilities, working within a software platform for all stages of research workflows, from experimental design to data analysis. Our system empowers scientists at Big Pharma companies, startups, and academic laboratories by allowing them to run wet lab experiments from anywhere in the world without ever stepping foot into the lab.

The Scientist at ECL exemplifies the ideal of the "Engineering-driven Scientist." Every scientist at Emerald learns to code, working in the Wolfram Language, and the eclectic team comes together to tackle the singular challenges at the intersection of understanding experimental detail, architecting the logistics for a new model of industrial lab facility, integrating new instrumentation, and building the software system that captures it all.

The Scientific Infrastructure team implements and maintains software that supports all experimental operations at Emerald Cloud Lab. The team engineers systems that direct, track, and support laboratory experiments.

Responsibilities include

• Architecting and developing new software solutions to increase the speed or reliability of the laboratory operations team

• Maintaining advanced laboratory support systems, including inventory management and asset tracking

• Updating SLL, Emerald’s software library, to provide a better development experience for internal and external users

Requirements

• Ph.D. degree in Chemistry or Biology

• You have 2 years of experience as a Scientific Infrastructure Engineer, Scientific Automation Engineer, Research Scientist - Automation & Systems, Research & Development Infrastructure Scientist, or Research Engineer

• Experience with Mathematica Coding

• You are comfortable with rigorous data analysis and experimental design.

• You are capable and willing to learn computer programming (no prior experience necessary, but it is a welcome bonus).

• You are capable and willing to learn to program robotic automation (no prior experience necessary, but it is a welcome bonus).

• You have worked extensively in the course of research to troubleshoot both experiments and complex instrumentation.

• You have experience conducting a wide variety of different experiment types and are excited to quickly develop expertise in a very diverse array of new methods and instrumentation.

• You enjoy building systems and automating processes.

• You are a detail-oriented thinker who takes pride in precision experimentation.

You might resonate with ECL if...

• You are passionate about science, technology, and medicine.

• You are impressively empathetic. You can argue the rationale you disagree with as convincingly as the one you agree with.

• You are intellectually fearless. Stretching yourself well out of your comfort zone across multiple disciplines is more the rule than the exception at Emerald.

• You are curious. When first-principles reasoning illuminates a path that diverges from the standard assumptions, you feel compelled to see where it leads.

About ECL:

https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com

The Emerald Cloud Laboratory (ECL) enables life scientists to move out of the lab, and to conduct research entirely from a computer. Stepping away from manual completion of experiments at the bench, scientists on the ECL leverage the remote, automated execution of all standard biology and chemistry experiments in Emerald’s industrial lab facilities, working within a software platform for all stages of research workflows, from experimental design to data analysis.