Lab Robotics Engineer

Plasmidsaurus is the world's fastest DNA sequencing company — $15 overnight plasmid sequencing, $50 three-day RNA-seq — and we need another builder on our automation team to keep scaling. We have ~100 robots in our main Louisville lab alone, 10 labs globally, and we build everything ourselves because off-the-shelf integrators are too slow, too limited, and too clunky. This is a high-agency IC role on a 5-person team reporting to the automation team lead. If you're the kind of person who would hack a 3D printer into a liquid handler on a weekend, we want to talk.

What will you be doing?

Building custom robotic systems from first principles — 3D printing parts, reprogramming machines to do things they weren't designed for, bolting together off-the-shelf electronics to solve problems no vendor can

Working side-by-side with R&D scientists and lab technicians to deeply understand workflows, then designing and delivering integrated automation solutions that work seamlessly in production

Writing production Python to control robots, package instrument data, and ship it into cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, Airflow) for downstream processing

Keeping a fleet of 100+ robots running reliably across 10 global labs — building the monitoring, software, and maintenance systems to do so

Collaborating on new product launches (we ship multiple new sequencing products per year) by identifying what hardware and software needs to exist to support novel workflows at scale