Senior Robotics Engineer — High-Throughput Research

Biopharma Careers; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive healthcare

Well-being programs including fitness,

Family planning benefits

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Moderna in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Senior Robotics Engineer to provide expert technical leadership for robotics and automation platforms enabling scalable, high-throughput research workflows. You will design, integrate, and validate robotic systems, electronic controls, and orchestration software.

The role requires translating lab needs into system specifications, risk assessments, and verification plans, mentoring engineers, and influencing cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• B.S. or higher with 2+ years or more of relevant experience in robotics, automation, systems, controls, software engineering, or a related discipline.
• Deep experience designing, integrating, and validating robotic systems, electronic controls, scientific instrumentation, and automation software.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C#, or similar languages for automation, instrument control, robotics integration, workflow orchestration, or data-driven platform development.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical leadership for robotics and automation projects supporting research discovery, experimental enablement, and high-throughput scientific workflows.
• Contribute to system architecture across robotics, motion control, instrument control, scheduling, data flow, safety, and orchestration layers.
• Translate scientific and operational needs into system specifications, requirements, integration plans, risk assessments, and verification strategies.
• Design and develop automation software, electronic controls, and workflows that integrate robotics, instruments, sensors, and data systems.
• Lead or co-lead integration of robotic platforms, new instruments, technologies, and automation modules into extensible platform architectures.
• Identify and help manage technical risks, dependencies, and complexity while improving throughput, flexibility, reliability, reproducibility, and process efficiency.
• Serve as a technical expert and advisor for robotics, automation, controls, and systems integration within Research and partner scientific teams.
• Partner with Research, Delivery Science, Digital, Engineering, and scientific stakeholders to align platform capabilities with experimental goals, data needs, and evolving research priorities.
• Apply automation best practices, external technology awareness, and emerging robotics capabilities to improve experimental workflows, research productivity, and the platform roadmap.
• Communicate advanced technical concepts clearly, build consensus, and influence stakeholders to adopt effective technical approaches.
• Mentor engineers and scientists and contribute to standards and best practices in robotics engineering, automation software, controls, verification, and validation.

Skills

Robotics

Automation

Systems engineering

Python

C#

Cross-functional leadership

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in robotics, automation, systems, controls, or related discipline

Job description

Moderna in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Senior Robotics Engineer to provide expert technical leadership for robotics and automation platforms enabling scalable, high-throughput research workflows. You will design, integrate, and validate robotic systems, electronic controls, and orchestration software.

The role requires translating lab needs into system specifications, risk assessments, and verification plans, mentoring engineers, and influencing cross-functional teams.