Staff Laboratory Engineer

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom Automata Full time

10% bonus (annual & discretionary & performance based)
Hybrid 2-3 days in office

Automata is building a world-class company to disrupt the life science industry and empower scientists by making automation a reality for every lab.
We work with labs across the world to understand their specific workflows and needs and develop personalised solutions that range from diagnostic, and drug discovery to synthetic biology.
We're building our LINQ platform as a hardware and software platform. This allows us to simplify everyday automation tasks, while supporting more advanced paths for specialised workflows, in a fast, flexible, and cost-efficient way. We are looking for a Staff Engineer whose mission is to be the technical leader who specifies and communicates the technical deliverables for our project delivery in our Instruments team.
Automata's engineering team is growing to meet the increased demand for our LINQ automation platform from our customers in the life-sciences industry. We need highly skilled and experienced engineers to capture customer requirements, guide our customer projects and Product Engineering teams toward suitable solutions at the intersection of hardware and software in the life-sciences automation space.
They are very senior, individual contributors who spend at least 50% of their time coding. Help identify ways to break down complex work. Suggesting spikes, Proof of concepts and creative alternatives to help unblock delivery of complex issues
Participating in project scoping, breaking a big piece of work into chunks for the team, and using your knowledge and experience to avoid possible risks in strategy


Identifying areas of risk and opportunities for improvement, increase in efficiency
Help to drive execution of technical strategy at team levels


Open minded and happy to help attitude to become a trusted thought partner to product and design peers
Python to write our application code, APIs and SDK
C# for integrating with proprietary Windows systems
Protobufs for serialising our structured event data
AWS IoT for debugging and digesting telemetry data
Serial, TCP, and gRPC for communicating with remote devices
You have experience working on Hardware Integration, Event-driven, Data-intensive systems
You have a quantitative mindset: you care about outcomes and you make data-informed decisions
You’re comfortable dealing with ambiguity and have experience helping your teams and peers resolve that ambiguity


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