About the role
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?
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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
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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
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Writing production Python to control robots, package instrument data, and ship it into cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, Airflow) for downstream processing
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Keeping a fleet of 100+ robots running reliably across 10 global labs — building the monitoring, software, and maintenance systems to do so
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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
