Automation Engineer

• About the Job
• Proteinea is a platform for insect-based biotechnology integrating biology with engineering and molecular sciences to accelerate building with biology. We are leading the reinvention of the new insect biotechnology industry with insects that mass-produced.  
• You will be working on something you have probably never done before.
• We are looking for an outstanding individual to join our ProWired team as an automation engineer. Using your experience, you will ensure that our new processes are standardized and our R&D objectives are achieved in a timely manner in alignment with the company goals.  
• You will work with a cross-disciplinary team of biologists and chemists, as well as colleagues with backgrounds in computational biology and software, AI, and aerospace engineering.
• Beyond the technical qualifications, you must be highly goal-oriented, inquisitive, organized, independent, collaborative, willing to learn new techniques and concepts, and be able to thrive in an atmosphere of shifting demands and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Developing automated experimental workflows for genetic engineering processes, strain cultivation, sample preparation, and multi-omics analysis
• Writing software to drive operation of laboratory instruments and robotics
• Validating and QC'ing automated protocols
• Writing software for data acquisition, retrieval, and processing
• Collaborating with biologists on automation equipment operation
• Training automation users on workflows and best practices
• Supporting and maintaining automation hardware
• Designing and building integrated automation infrastructure, including work cells for executing high-throughput processes, as well as flexible distributed automation tooling