Founding Robotics & Automation Engineer

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Axiombio The Founding Robotics & Automation Engineer at Axiombio builds software and robotics for an advanced automated biology lab. This role develops systems to control laboratory instruments and optimize workflows for high-throughput biology experiments.

Responsibilities

Build an extraordinarily automated, high-throughput biology lab from the ground up
Develop software to control, orchestrate, and monitor laboratory instruments, robotics, and experimental workflows
Integrate liquid handlers, robotic arms, incubators, imaging systems, sequencers, mass spectrometers, and other scientific instruments into end-to-end automated workflows
Work closely with scientists to translate complex biological assays into reliable, scalable automated protocols
Develop systems for experiment scheduling, execution, monitoring, error recovery, and quality control
Build infrastructure to capture complete experimental records, including instrument commands, metadata, logs, timestamps, and raw data
Optimize laboratory workflows for extreme throughput, reproducibility, data quality, and minimal human intervention
Transfer and automate advanced biological assays across Axiom's global network of partner laboratories
We’re especially interested in:
Python, software engineering, APIs, asynchronous programming, and distributed systems
PyLabRobot, Hamilton VENUS, Tecan EVOware, Opentrons, SiLA 2, and laboratory instrument APIs
Laboratory automation, robotics, motion control, industrial automation, and hardware integration