Senior Automation Engineer

Company Summary

FL96, Inc. is a privately held, early-stage company developing a novel AI and data-driven approach to materials discovery and development to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy.

FL96 was founded by Flagship Pioneering, an innovation enterprise that conceives, creates, resources, and builds companies that invent breakthrough technologies to transform health care, agriculture, and sustainability. Flagship has created over 100 groundbreaking companies since 2000, including Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), Generate Biomedicines, Tessera Therapeutics, Indigo Ag, Inari Agriculture, and Sana Biotechnology.

Responsibilities

• Creating automation software for integrating experimental and computational efforts
• Collaborating with the experimental and computational teams to design, assemble, and integrate capabilities for high throughput, automated workflows including data management with instrument control software
• Design, perform, analyze, report, and present findings from discovery and development workflows
• Design and code control logic and fault recovery protocols

Qualifications

• Experience programming in Python
• Experience creating drivers for hardware components
• Experience working with third party application programming interfaces (APIs)
• The ability to adapt, build and refine, or innovate experimental tools
• PhD in Computer Science, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc. OR a master's with 3+ years industry experience
• Strong self-starter and independent thinker, with strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated industry experience or academic achievement, as evidenced by publications in high impact journals
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of conveying technical information in a clear and thorough manner
• Eager to work with highly skilled and dynamic teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and technical setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with liquid handling robots
• Experience with materials synthesis, characterization, and performance testing equipment
• Post-doctoral research or 3+ years of industry experience
• Experience generating new APIs for integrated or multicomponent instruments, and automating experiment execution
• Data management experience, including managing data and databases

More About Flagship Pioneering

We are creative optimists, and we would love for you to consider joining our team!  See all our open opportunities across Flagship Pioneering’s Ecosystem!

Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category platform companies to transform human health and sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, the firm has applied a unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $100 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship has deployed $3.1 billion in capital toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $19 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions. The current Flagship ecosystem comprises 42 transformative companies, including Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Evelo Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVLO), Foghorn Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FHTX), Indigo Ag, Omega Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OMGA), Sana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: SANA), and Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB).

We believe pioneering is best done by teams, and that it is a process that can be taught, learned, and replicated.  Learn more about our Company Creation Model.

Can Breakthrough Innovations Be Made Systematically? A Conversation With Noubar Afeyan, Flagship Pioneering’s CEO.

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are 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.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies:  Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates.  The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team.   Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.