Automation Engineer III

The Role:

Generate:Biomedicines is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Automation Engineer to join our team at the interface of lab automation, instrumentation, integrated workcells, custom hardware, and protein therapeutics discovery.

This role will be central to sustaining and advancing Generate’s wet lab platform, with particular emphasis on automated workflows spanning DNA production, protein production, cell culture, and screening & validation assays. Just as importantly, this engineer will help extend Generate’s capabilities beyond immediate automation support by building and integrating custom instrument capabilities into the wet lab ecosystem and partnering on adjacent engineering efforts where thoughtful hardware, fluidics, or systems integration can unlock better science.

The role sits within an organization of highly motivated scientists and engineers where collaboration and communication across technical disciplines drives the team's success. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in liquid handling, workcell automation, troubleshooting, scripting, and method development, along with experience building, adapting, or integrating instrumentation in close partnership with scientists and the rest of the engineering team. This role is well-suited for someone who can execute at a high technical level while thinking end-to-end about building scalable support through training, documentation, and handoff practices that increase scientist independence.

Here's how you will contribute:

• Drive reliability, troubleshooting, and method development for DNA/protein production and assay/readout workflows on integrated workcells, while improving throughput, parallelization, and data quality across platform and pipeline programs.

• Build, adapt, and integrate custom instrument capabilities into Generate’s wet-lab platform, including in-house-built hardware, fluidic systems, or related technologies into scientist-facing workflows.

• Own critical automation and instrumentation problems end-to-end, from method design and system improvement through live troubleshooting on active runs, vendor coordination, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

• Partner closely with scientists to provide high-quality in-lab support, unblock experiments quickly, and identify new automation- or engineering-enabled capabilities that reduce timelines for production, scale-up, and future platform workflows.

The Ideal Candidate will have:

• BS + with 5+ years industry experience in lab automation and analytical & process instrumentation development, MS with 3+ years industry experience, or PhD in engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, life sciences, or a related field.

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