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Salary: USD 100,000 - 120,000 / annual
Ultima Genomics is a rapidly growing life sciences technology company developing groundbreaking genomics sequencing technologies. The company has raised approximately $600 million from top-tier investors and brings together expertise across healthcare, life sciences, engineering, software, and biotechnology.
As a Systems Engineer II, you will contribute to the development, testing, and optimization of cutting-edge instrumentation as part of the systems engineering team. This is a full-time, onsite position at the Fremont, CA location.
Key responsibilities include:
- Execute end-to-end development including planning, development, optimization, and testing of workflows for life science automation and liquid handling systems, owning the workflow from concept to customer delivery
- Collaborate with hardware and software development engineers to implement improvements in automation process efficiency and reliability
- Operate, troubleshoot, and customize hardware and software components
- Interface with stakeholders to collect and define requirements, and provide user training and documentation
- Work with Chemistry and Biology teams to translate and optimize manual lab processes on automated machines
- Other job duties as assigned
Requirements:
- BS or MS in Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, or closely related field
- 2+ years of relevant experience
- Experience in the development of scientific instruments from a systems integration perspective is strongly preferred
- Basic understanding of molecular biology, genomics, and other standard life science lab workflows and equipment
- Familiarity with a scripting language such as Python
- Meticulous and detail-oriented with a hands-on approach to work
- Ability to define and follow complex operating procedures
- Excellent organizational, communication, and presentation skills
