Fluidics Engineering Intern – Consumable/Flowcell

At Element Biosciences, we are passionate about our mission to empower the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate our collective impact on humanity. We have built a highly efficient product-driven organization where employees can learn, grow, and thrive in a challenging but encouraging environment. We are committed to scientific integrity, collegiality, honesty, objectivity, and openness.   

We are looking for a Fluidics Engineering Intern – Consumable/Flowcell who is curious, loves to learn, and wants to make an impact on cutting-edge projects. Our program has multiple elements (no pun intended) to ensure that you have a well-rounded internship experience helping the Fluidics team by taking ownership of a portion of a large-scale project, utilize your expertise to address real-world issues, and gain valuable industrial experience while contributing to the development of an exceptional sequencing product. This internship will also provide opportunities to develop soft-skills as well as meet with Leaders across the organization to learn about their careers and gain insights on how to navigate your early career decisions.  

This role is a San Diego based role. If you possess the following and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to explore this opportunity.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: 

• Work in a cross-functional team to design and develop the next-gen consumable/flowcell for pushing the boundary of sequencing platform, optimizing the performance of the platform, and exploring new possibilities for sequencers
• Participate in designing experiments, collecting data to validate hypotheses and pinpointing to prospective solutions, with the close mentorship from a staff fluidics engineer
• Apply fundamental knowledge of fluidics, including experimental and simulation expertise, and utilize troubleshooting skills to explore sciences and address issues that have a direct impact to the real-world
• Collaborate with experienced engineers to acquire industrial insights and skillsets in a cutting-edge biotech company

Education and Experience: 

• Junior or Senior year student currently enrolled in Bachelor/Master/PhD degree program in the Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical, Biology, Physics or related department 
• Wet lab experience for 1-3 years
• Basic understanding of fluid mechanics, mechanics, optics, chemistry, and microscopy is preferred
• Device characterization experience, including fluidic consumable development, material characterization, fabrication of microfluidic chips, on-chip chemical/biological reactions, manufacturing of micro sensor and actuator, prototyping of instrument/device/chip for lab-on-a-chip, organ-on-a-chip, immunodiagnostics, cell sorting, on-chip cytometry, gene-sequencing, high content screening, or any biofluidics/optofluidics-related applications, is preferred
• Data analysis experience using basic programming software, e.g., python, Matlab, or C++, is required
• Experience with publishing papers or presenting at conferences is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies

Physical Requirements: 

• Must be able to lift 15 pounds

Location:  

• San Diego - onsite

Travel:   

• N/A

Job Type: 

• Intern/Non-exempt

Base Compensation Pay Range: 

• $25 - 40/hr

Please note: Compensation will depend on multiple factors, including degree and experience level. 

We foster an environment such that all people are afforded the freedom to pursue their passions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.