• Job Description

  Req#: 14438288
  Position Role/Tile: Manager Automation Engineering - Lunar
  Location: Redwood City, CA.
  
  
  Job Description
  In this role, you'll be responsible for leading a team that automates and scales complex workflows and implements processes for a state-of-the-art sequencing lab.
  You will support the development of all parts of a state-of-the-art automated assay workflow.
  You will be directly responsible for leading a small team of automation engineers and leading all aspects of automation development from concept, requirements definition, and automated assay development, including liquid handling, optimization, error handling, and validation. You will leverage an understanding of molecular biology to troubleshoot analytical and preparative processes on automation platforms.
  The successful candidate will apply engineering skills and scientific methods to improve the scalability and reliability of Client's automated assay workflows.
  You must be collaborative and able to lead cross-functional teams working across a variety of projects effectively. These cross-functional teams will develop, optimize, and implement robust, scalable solutions for Client 's sample processing workflows with attention to improving efficiency, throughput, and quality. You will supervise and develop the capabilities of automation engineers. Furthermore, you have a strong organizational capacity to plan and lead the day to day execution of engineers within the automation engineering department.
  Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Manage a team of engineers and technicians. Includes having oversight over the hiring, development, and potential termination of team members.
  • Manage automation and assay development projects from concept to post-implementation support.
  • Analyze workflows, identify bottlenecks, and develop solutions to improve efficiency, throughput, cost, and quality
  • Lead or contribute to the innovation of current and new assays workflows, technologies and processes
  • Lead or contribute to the design, development, optimization, and implementation of automated liquid handling processes, systems, and streamlined workflows using DOE methodologies
  • Drive collection of process requirements from cross-functional stakeholders
  • Draft development plans, test plans, and associated procedures for automated workflows.
  • Program robotic liquid handling workstations and integrated robotic systems
  • Develop instrument integration with a Laboratory Information Management System
  Qualifications
  Are you an engineer with a proven track record of automating and scaling? You've established yourself as a manager or supervisor previously. You're eager to participate in the development of high growth, fast-paced startup? An interdisciplinary background in molecular biology, lab automation, and programming is required.
  The ideal candidate will have prior, demonstrated experience designing, developing, testing, implementing, and supporting automated sample-processing workflows using a requirements-driven approach in a clinical laboratory or other molecular biology-based laboratory settings. Will leverage an understanding of molecular biology and biochemistry to troubleshoot analytical and preparative processes. The successful candidate will apply scientific methods and engineering skills to improve the scalability of Client's sample processing workflows.
  You also have:
  • BS degree in engineering or science, preferably in molecular biology, genetics or biochemistry, bioengineering, chemical engineering, or a closely-related discipline and 8+ years of related experience. An MS with 5+ years of relevant work experience or a Ph.D. with 3+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Experience managing or supervising a small group of employees.
  • Background working in regulated laboratory environments (CLIA, IVD)
  • Highly skilled in streamlining workflows and developing automated laboratory processes and instrumentation systems, including collecting and documenting requirements, developing concepts, design, testing/validation, implementing, and training
  • Experience with operating and programming liquid handling robotics platforms (Hamilton preferred, TECAN, Beckman, Agilent)
  • Highly skilled with standard molecular biology techniques such as nucleic acid isolation, purification, and quantitation, bioanalyzer, DNA/RNA quantitation, qPCR or next-generation sequencing
  
  
  Central Business Solutions, Inc,
  37600 Central Ct.
  Suite #214
  Newark, CA 94560.

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