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Senior Scientist I, Mechanical Engineering

Madison, WI, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, develop, integrate, and test high-precision mechanical instrumentation (pump manifolds, vision systems, stages, sensors) for proprietary peptide array synthesizers to accelerate novel molecule discovery for therapeutic treatments.

Role type

Senior IC mechanical engineer (scientific instrumentation)

Builds

Proprietary peptide array synthesizers and laboratory instrumentation

Domain

Biopharmaceutical R&D / Precision Instrumentation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Mechanical design and analysis, SolidWorks, Python or MATLAB, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, optomechanical assembly, FEA or CFD modeling, component specification

Preferred skills

Liquid handling robot experience (Tecan, Hamilton), LabVIEW or Keyence data acquisition, COMSOL analysis

Responsibilities

Design and integrate instrumentation subcomponents, lead mechanical design and analysis across project phases, diagnose and resolve instrumentation issues, develop and oversee testing of design concepts, acquire and analyze system data, interact with suppliers to select components

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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