What if you could join a rapidly growing company and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients through looking at and treating disease in a revolutionary way?

What this position is all about: Genomics team at Cellarity Inc. seeks a Laboratory Automation Engineer to work as the primary engineering resource at a small (100 person) and growing drug discovery startup. The role is focused on laboratory automation and instrumentation, including programming lab automation, as well as designing, building, integrating, maintaining and improving automated methodologies for laboratory biological processes.

The work is hands-on and will require skills in a broad range of engineering disciplines including liquid handling, protocol development, troubleshooting electrical and mechanical systems, and providing operating system validation/verification. The successful candidate will work closely with other researchers in biology, chemistry, technology, sequencing, and machine learning. The candidate must be a creative problem solver, be detail and process oriented, have excellent communication skills, and be eager to work in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment.

What you would be responsible for:

• Manage, plan, develop, and execute laboratory automation projects for a broad range of lab-based workflows, including:  next generation sequencing, cell culture, qPCR, etc.
• Act as point person for laboratory hardware, QC and preventative maintenance across the organization
• Implement laboratory instrument software and tools to drive high-throughput processes
• Optimize and validate protocols to support scale-up
• Serve as an expert resource to communicate and advise on strategic and tactical issues in automation and engineering
• Explore, test and as appropriate bring in technology capabilities

What experiences will you need:

• Degree or equivalent professional experience in mechanical or electrical engineering, or biological science related fields.
• 2+ years’ experience in implementation and operation of automated systems, including designing, building and deploying automated laboratory workflows in life sciences or clinical laboratory setting
• Professional level knowledge of engineering and biological principles, particularly in genomics and DNA sequencing.
• Expertise in programming Hamilton instrumentation required
• Familiarity with a wide range of biological laboratory instrumentation
• Experience with 3D printing and fabrication a plus
• Proven ability to troubleshoot technical and scientific issues, both individually and as part of a team 

Company Summary: Cellarity’s mission is to fundamentally redesign the way drugs are created for the sake of bringing new hope to patients.  By shifting the focus from a single target to the underlying cellular dysfunction, we unravel the complexity of disease biology and create medicines that were never before possible. The company has developed unique capabilities that link biology and chemistry with high dimensional -omic data from which we design medicines against the cellular signature of disease. The Cellarity platform allows us to uncover new biology in diseases even in the absence of known causal targets. The company has drug discovery programs underway in several disease areas, including metabolic disease, hematology, and immunology.  Cellarity recently completed a Series C financing and has raised a total of $274M from all funding rounds to date, with contributions from world-renowned investors alongside Flagship Pioneering who created the company.  Cellarity’s goal is to grow into a fully integrated next generation Biotech company driving a new age in drug creation.

Cellarity is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Cellarity does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Cellarity or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Cellarity’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Cellarity, and Cellarity will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.