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- 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
Job Requirements
- BS or MS in engineering or equivalent
- Software development capability, especially pertaining to hardware control
- Experience in hardware development, integration, and testing
Preferred
- Practical knowledge of high-throughput biological processes
- Experience with laboratory automation systems and experimental workflow development
- Familiarity with SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and Building Automation Systems
- Experience with writing software test plans, user requirements, and system design documents
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