Lab Automation Engineer

What if you could join a rapidly growing company and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients through looking at and treating disease in a revolutionary way?

About Vesalius

Vesalius Therapeutics is pioneering a revolutionary platform to generate breakthrough treatments for common diseases.  Vesalius’ platform uses large-scale human genetics, genomics, stem cell studies and artificial intelligence to uncover causal biology and identify optimal intervention points for new therapies. Efficiently identifying these intervention points and the patients most likely to benefit from these novel therapies will enable smaller, shorter clinical trials with a higher probability of success. Vesalius was founded in 2019 by Flagship Pioneering. For more information visit vesaliustx.com, or follow us on X and LinkedIn.

About the Position

Vesalius Therapeutics, a Flagship Pioneering company, is seeking a capable and highly motivated Lab Automation Engineer to join our growing team. As an automation engineer, you will be an essential part of an interdisciplinary team of highly creative and talented individuals responsible for designing, maintain and implement lab instrumentation, workstations and integrated robotic systems that support various discovery activities within the Assays & HTS team.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, establishment, and application of automation processes for in vitro cell-based assays including ancillary activities that enable drug discovery, target validation and sample logistics to enable our internal drug discovery processes
• Manage robotic arm enabled instruments, workstation-based systems (e.g., Beckman Biomek/i7, or similar), integrated systems (e.g., HighRes Biosolutions, Celltrio, Biosero) for high throughput screening and sample management including working with IT colleagues for LIMS integrations
• Create, modify, and troubleshoot robotics/automation scripts
• Identify and proactively troubleshoot technical issues, implement solutions under limited supervision
• Provide hands-on training to end-users across an array of various liquid handling platforms
• Maintain and support safe lab practices and environment including quality control of instrumentation performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering or related discipline with 3 or more years of lab automation experience
• Working knowledge of robotic systems, automated liquid handlers, and multimodal lab instruments
• Familiarity with assays and their workflows using automated liquid handlers and robotic systems
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently troubleshoot automated systems and quickly adapt to evolving technology and assay methodology
• Excellent organizational and verbal/written communication skills
• Ability to work on cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic environment with a sense of urgency and creativity and focus on deliverables.
• Team player with a strong work ethic, able to work both independently and collaboratively 
• Continuously learns and adapts quickly to new information

About Flagship

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com

Vesalius is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. 

At Vesalius, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Vesalius Therapeutics does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Vesalius or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Vesalius internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Vesalius, and Vesalius will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.