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Engineering Lead, Robot Services

Job Title: Engineering Lead, Robot Services

Software / Opentrons

Reports to: Dir of Software Eng, Robotics
Location: NYC (Hybrid)

FLSA Classification: Exempt

About Us
Opentrons Labworks, Inc., is a disruptive life science company leveraging its integrated lab platform to supercharge the pace of innovation in research and healthcare. Opentrons Labworks is the parent company to business units Opentrons Robotics and Neochromosome. Through Opentrons Robotics, thousands of institutions are automating R&D operations with flexible, easy-to-use liquid handling lab robots. Through Neochromosome, biopharma and biotech at large can benefit from our world-class genome-scale cell engineering solutions. Learn more at https://www.opentronslabworks.com/.

We provide excellent benefits, competitive compensation, equity packages, and opportunities for growth. If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, come join us!

Benefits

Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for employees and their families
Paid Vacation, Parental and Sick Leave
Generous Stock options
401k with 4% company match
Long-term and short-term Life & Disability insurance
And much more!

About the Role

The Software team is responsible for the software, firmware, and embedded operating system that powers our robotic liquid handling platform and peripherals. We’re looking for an Engineering Lead that will lead the team responsible for building and maintaining the API services that empower our users. An Engineering Lead at Opentrons is a player-coach role that guides their team of direct reports and collaborates with product and design teams to deliver customer-driven outcomes. In addition to delivery and technical responsibilities, the Engineering Lead will also be responsible for guiding and developing engineers on their team through regular 1:1s and career growth plans.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of empowering people and delivering customer value. They have strong opinions (loosely held) about architecting reliable, flexible, and performant systems in both offline and cloud environments.

This is a hybrid position, spending at least 50% of the week in our Brooklyn office and the rest of the time is remote.

What You Will Do

Develop and execute technical project plans to expose capabilities on our platform while maintaining backwards compatibility through intentional API versioning
Collaborate with engineering, product management and design teams to deliver a reliable platform
Collaborate with both Embedded and App/UI software teams
Contribute code alongside the team in a manner that enables delivery without creating bottlenecks
Advocate for engineering-driven initiatives into project prioritization, while articulating complex concepts to non-developers
Manage, mentor, coach, and grow an exceptional team of software engineers
Engage with our open source community

What We Are Looking For

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other relevant field (BS in Engineering, etc.)

Experience:

3+ years of engineering management
6+ years experience of writing code for customer-facing products
Strong experience with Linux, Python, custom API development
Experience with git, git actions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Strong software engineering skills and fundamentals
Excitement to work in a distributed, multi-disciplinary team
Experience guiding teams to create well-tested, resilient applications
Interest in biology and an eagerness to learn

Extra Qualifications:

Contributions or active maintenance of open-source software
Experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines on cloud environments (ex: AWS and software deployments)
Experience with Node, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React
Experience with embedded devices
Biology and/or wet lab experience

Working Conditions and Physical Effort

Work is performed in a typical interior/office work environment
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
Limited physical effort required

Compensation Range: The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $165,000-$175,000/yr; base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and years of experience. We typically target mid-range for well-qualified candidates. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including equity and full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

Opentrons is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Opentrons Glassdoor Company Review

3.9

Opentrons DE&I Review

4.4

CEO of Opentrons

Jon Brennan-Badal

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By Opentrons

Our mission is to provide the scientific community with a common platform to easily share protocols and reproduce each other's results. Our robots automate experiments that would otherwise be done by hand, allowing our community to spend more time...

8 jobs

INDUSTRY

Biotech & Pharmaceuticals

TEAM SIZE

51-200

LOCATION

Hybrid, based in Brooklyn, NY

DATE POSTED

April 14, 2023