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Senior Lab Instrumentation Automation Engineer

Westbrook, ME💼 Full-time💰 $105,000–$105,000🗓 2026-06-24 → 2026-09-27

Core

Designing and maintaining automated diagnostic systems for high-throughput lab results in veterinary and public health sectors.

Role type

Senior Lab Instrumentation Automation Engineer

Builds

Automated liquid handling systems, robotics, and diagnostic hardware/software integration for reference labs

Domain

Biomedical diagnostics / Lab automation / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

System analysis, functional system breakdown, margin analysis, troubleshooting complex failures, project management, product qualification, root-cause analysis, system architecture design, requirement allocation, validation testing

Preferred skills

Liquid system experience (Hamilton, Tecan, Revvity), lab automation programming (Venus, WinPREP), Python coding, source-level debugging, Matlab/JMP usage

Technologies

Venus, WinPREP, Matlab, JMP, Python

Responsibilities

Conceptualize and evaluate technical feasibility of new product concepts and hardware changes; Create and communicate system development vision; Characterize systems by breaking them into components and mapping functions; Build traceability through allocation for project verification; Account for margin for failure in designs; Qualify products by determining measurable standards and validating performance; Manage overall system throughout product development; Troubleshoot software-related problems and reverse-engineer code; Specify, implement, and test modifications to automation software

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with project management

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