Overview
On Site
$$58.40hr - $63.40hr
Contract - W2
Contract - 1 day((s))
Skills
Automation Engineer
Job Details
Job Description:
Pay Range: $58.40hr - $63.40hr
Responsibilities:
- Candidate will work closely with laboratory teams (process chemists, engineers, and the high-throughput experimentation team), fostering strong partnerships with scientists to deeply understand their research processes.
- Candidate goal will be to design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge automated systems, robotics, instrumentation, and digital workflows that significantly enhance the productivity and efficiency of our labs.
- Candidate will be responsible for programming and developing automated laboratory systems.
- This includes supporting software development and deployment to automate workflows, integrating analytical instruments with laboratory software, and ensuring seamless communication between instruments and internal data management services.
- Evaluate and select automation platforms and robotics systems from various vendors suited for chemical and analytical workflows.
- Assist in the development and deployment of digital twins for both batch and continuous processes, ensuring alignment with Quality by Design (QbD) principles.
- Candidate will play a key role in implementing and scaling Model Predictive Control (MPC) systems, leveraging advanced process models to optimize performance in real-time, maintain product quality, and enhance operational efficiency across large-scale manufacturing environments.
- Integrate high-throughput experimentation (HTE) tools such as liquid handlers, solid dispensers, and analytical instruments.
- Troubleshoot and maintain automated systems to ensure consistent and reliable performance.
- Provide concise technical presentations to communicate work to project teams, cross functional teams and management.
- Document all work on projects and continuous improvements in eLNB experiments and summarize in Technical Reports.
- Bachelor's (with 2+ years of experience) or Master's degree in Engineering (e.g., Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Biomedical), Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Strong skills in writing and optimizing scripts in programming or scripting automation systems.
- Experience in designing and implementing automated laboratory processes from the initial concept through to full deployment.
- Strong understanding of robotics, instrument control, and system integration.
- An ability to work as part of a team, engaging other scientists with complementary skill sets in the field of pharmaceutical development.
- A change agent mentality, proposing novel approaches to challenging scientific questions and exploring new modeling approaches.
- Familiarity with laboratory analytical measurement instruments or relevant work experience in a pharmaceutical sciences laboratory setting.
- Domain knowledge in small molecule process development with demonstrated industrial applications or academic publications in this field.
- Some knowledge in Multivariate Analysis, chemometrics and statistics.
- Experience in the development and scale-up of continuous processes.
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