About Archean Sciences Archean Sciences is developing autonomous brain on a chip systems that interface living neurons with advanced hardware and software. Our platform is designed to support scalable in vitro neuroscience, drug development, and biological computing by making live-cell experiments more automated, reproducible, and data-rich.
About the Role We are looking for a versatile Mechatronics / System Engineer to help build, integrate, and harden the next generation of our autonomous systems. This role will own the end-to-end physical integration of the biological interface hardware into a reliable autonomous platform.
This is a foundational engineering role for someone with high curiosity, strong technical ownership, and excitement about building paradigm-shifting systems. The ideal candidate enjoys building, debugging, and improving complex systems across hardware, software, and robotics, under biological constraints.
What You Will Build
- An integrated autonomous bioinfrastructure platform capable of reliably running defined experimental routines.
- Build, calibration, and operating SOPs that allow the system to be reproduced and maintained.
- Reliability metrics and test infrastructure to track QC metrics, failure modes, and system performance.
- Practical engineering and industrial design improvements that move the system from working prototype toward scalable product.
Responsibilities - Build and integrate electromechanical systems, including robotics, motion control, sensors, actuators, fluid handling, and control software.
- Reproduce and improve the current system from existing documentation, including design notes, papers, and patent filings.
- Prototype rapidly across fixtures, wiring, PCB bring-up, mechanical interfaces, and system-level assemblies.
- Convert experimental and biological requirements into concrete subsystem specifications, test plans, and operating procedures.
- Design for live-cell constraints, including stable environmental control, sterile fluid handling, optical access, and electrical access.
- Develop calibration routines, diagnostics, logging infrastructure, and reliability tests.
- Harden prototypes into repeatable systems that can run defined routines with minimal supervision.
- Work closely with team members to translate scientific requirements into robust engineering execution.
Requirements - Mechatronics, robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or related fields.
- Motion control, sensors, actuators, embedded systems, FPGAs, or automation.
- Python, control software, data logging, diagnostics, or hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- PCB bring-up, wiring, fixtures, rapid prototyping, or lab instrumentation.
- Fluidics, sterile systems, environmental control, microscopy, electrophysiology, or biological instrumentation.
- Experience building systems that must operate reliably over long periods with limited supervision.
- A hands-on builder who enjoys making complex systems work in the real world.
- Highly curious and interested in understanding full systems, not just individual components.
- Excited by the opportunity to build paradigm-shifting technologies.
- Comfortable working across mechanical, electrical, software, and experimental domains.
- Able to prototype quickly and then refine systems to be reliable and repeatable.
- Detail-oriented with pride in clean builds and well-documented systems.
To apply, please send a resume and brief note to
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