ABOUT MULTUS

Multus Biotechnology is a global leader in cell culture media design, helping biomanufacturing companies accelerate the translation of scientific breakthroughs into real-world impact. By combining high-throughput robotic automation and AI, Multus revolutionizes cell culture media development - delivering breakthrough performance and efficiency that were previously unattainable.

Multus is a fast-paced, collaborative team that enjoys working hard in pursuit of our mission. We've created a unique work environment, with a team unified in our drive to create lasting and meaningful impact on a global scale.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Multus is offering the opportunity for a Lab Automation Engineer to put automation at the heart of how we do science. At the core of Multus is our automated experimental capabilities to generate proprietary, large-scale structured datasets on cell-culture media that power our machine learning models. You will be joining tomaybe expand our automation capabilities to support our upcoming commercial pipelines/obligations. Collaborating deeply with both scientific and engineering teams, you will be essential in our integrated closed-loop design process for media.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design and implement the orchestration layer that coordinates instruments, robotic handling, and data capture across our automated lab.
• Write and maintain software drivers for scientific instruments, including vendor API integration and support for communication standards.
• Automate experimental workflows that integrate robotics, instrument control and real-time data analysis
• Leverage open-source lab automation frameworks and other vendor lab orchestration softwares to fit our specific instrument suite and research needs.
• Work directly with biological scientists and ML researchers to translate experimental protocols into reliable, reproducible automated pipelines.
• Maintain and improve the reliability of running automated workflows, including error handling, logging, and recovery from instrument failures.
• Evaluate and integrate new instruments and robotic systems as our lab capabilities expand.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience building automation systems for scientific laboratories, either in industry or at a research institution.
• Strong Python skills; comfortable building production-quality software
• Direct experience writing software drivers or integrations for scientific instruments, and an understanding of the challenges involved: inconsistent vendor documentation, brittle communication protocols, hardware edge cases.
• Experience with lab orchestration frameworks or similar open-source or commercial systems.
• Hardware fluency to diagnose whether a problem is in the software, the instrument, or the integration between them.
• Experience designing automated workflows end-to-end: from sample handling through measurement, data capture, and handoff to downstream analysis.