Job DescriptionJob Description Job Title: Lab Automation Engineer
Location: Cambridge, MA
Duration: 9 Months
Job Summary
Summary of Key Responsibilities
- We seek a passionate, experienced, and creative Lab Automation Scientist or Engineer to drive the implementation of automated and robotic solutions across our drug discovery platform.
- The candidate will become an integral member of a multidisciplinary team advancing Client RNAi therapeutic programs from target discovery through drug candidate lead selection.
- The primary objectives of the team are to develop highly scalable screening platforms and protocols to continually increase both throughput and decision-enabling content.
- The successful candidate will implement high-throughput workflows incorporating liquid- and plate-handling robotics in support of diverse application areas, including in vitro screening, ex-vivo sample processing, and high-throughput RNA-seq, including transcriptional profiling, spatial and single-cell applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Optimize, troubleshoot, and stabilize ex vivo sample-processing methods on the HighRes platform.
- Collaborate with cross-functional scientists to streamline ex vivo sample-processing workflows.
- Onboard and develop automated methods on the new PE JANUS and Beckman liquid-handling systems.
- Lead the transition of two manual workflows to robotic liquid-handling platforms.
- Perform maintenance and troubleshooting for the integrated HighRes system and associated processes.
- Serve as a liaison between external vendors and cross-functional site stakeholders.
- Train users and provide ongoing support for existing robotic platforms.
Qualifications:
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Bioengineering, Engineering, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or related field
- 5 years of hands-on experience operating and programming robotics platforms.
- Ability to understand diverse and complex workflows on liquid- and plate- handling systems, including the sources and statistical assessment of unwarranted assay variance
- Experience with liquid handlers and integrated platform such as PerkinElmer, HighRes Cellario, and Beckman Coulter.
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Company DescriptionFounded in 2002 by three former executives; TalentBurst is an award-winning full-service Staffing Firm working directly with Fortune 500 companies in the US and Canada. We specialize in Contract and Contract to Permanent roles across many industries and have direct/contractual relationships with all our clients. Please visit our website or come meet us at our offices in Natick, MA, Miami, FL, Christiansburg, VA, Vineland, NJ, Houston, TX & downtown San Francisco, CACompany DescriptionFounded in 2002 by three former executives; TalentBurst is an award-winning full-service Staffing Firm working directly with Fortune 500 companies in the US and Canada. We specialize in Contract and Contract to Permanent roles across many industries and have direct/contractual relationships with all our clients. Please visit our website or come meet us at our offices in Natick, MA, Miami, FL, Christiansburg, VA, Vineland, NJ, Houston, TX & downtown San Francisco, CA