Automation Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Automation Engineer. This is a 12+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Cambridge, MA (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 25-72302

Pay Range: $50 - $60/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• You will work closely with laboratory teams (process chemists, engineers, and the high-throughput experimentation team), fostering strong partnerships with scientists to deeply understand their research processes. 
• Your goal will be to design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge automated systems, robotics, instrumentation, and digital workflows that significantly enhance the productivity and efficiency of our labs.
• You will be responsible for programming and developing automated laboratory systems.
• This includes supporting software development and deployment to automate workflows, integrating analytical instruments with laboratory software, and ensuring seamless communication between instruments and Client’s internal data management services.
• Evaluate and select automation platforms and robotics systems from various vendors suited for chemical and analytical workflows.
• Assist in the development and deployment of digital twins for both batch and continuous processes, ensuring alignment with Quality by Design (QbD) principles.
• You will play a key role in implementing and scaling Model Predictive Control (MPC) systems, leveraging advanced process models to optimize performance in real-time, maintain product quality, and enhance operational efficiency across large-scale manufacturing environments.
• Integrate high-throughput experimentation (HTE) tools such as liquid handlers, solid dispensers, and analytical instruments.
• Troubleshoot and maintain automated systems to ensure consistent and reliable performance.
• Provide concise technical presentations to communicate work to project teams, cross functional teams and management.
• Document all work on projects and continuous improvements in eLNB experiments and summarize in Technical Reports.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience: 

• Key Skills; Pharmaceutical/Biopharmaceutical/Biotechnology
• Automation/Automation System
• Chemistry
• Analytical instrument/Instruments
• laboratory systems/laboratory Setting
• Robotics, instrument control, and system integration
• programming and developing, or scripting
• C #, Python, Labview
• Bachelor’s (with 2+ years of experience) or Master’s degree in Engineering (e.g., Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Biomedical), Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Strong skills in writing and optimizing scripts in programming or scripting automation systems
• Experience in designing and implementing automated laboratory processes from the initial concept through to full deployment.
• Strong understanding of robotics, instrument control, and system integration.
• An ability to work as part of a team, engaging other scientists with complementary skill sets in the field of pharmaceutical development.
• A change agent mentality, proposing novel approach to challenging scientific questions and exploring new modeling approaches.
• Familiarity with laboratory analytical measurement instruments or relevant work experience in a pharmaceutical sciences laboratory setting.
• Domain knowledge in small molecule process development with demonstrated industrial applications or academic publications in this field
• Some knowledge in Multivariate Analysis, chemometrics and statistics
• Experience in the development and scale-up of continuous processes

Our client is a leading pharmaceutical Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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