Lab Automation Specialist

Title: Lab Automation Specialist / Engineer

Location: West Point, PA (100% on-site)

Duration: 12 Months Contract

**Not looking for "Testers"**

Comments/Special Instructions

Programming focused.

File transformations, sweeping files, converting to standard format, data-basing.

More engineering than data scientist

Education:

Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Life Sciences or equivalent with 2-3 years of relevant experience.

Required Experience and Skills:

- Must be a self-starter, able to work in an entrepreneurial and independent way when required.

- Must be a team player with strong collaboration and communication skills.

- Experience in software development or working with lab data capture systems or automation.

- Experience with scripting/programing in the following: python, C#, R, Spotfire, PowerBI, VBScript , SQL

Experienced with common data structures and queries like SQL, Oracle and other databases

Preferred Experience and Skills:

- Knowledge of software and script development including appropriate unit testing and integrating scripts into existing architecture

- Experience with . Button Go or a similar lab automation scheduling software (Momentum, Cellario, etc.).

- Experience with other programming languages like javascript, R, R-shiny.

- Experience with Web-based application development and/or database development.

- Experience with visualization applications including Spotfire and PowerBI

- Experience with lab equipment automation of data flows and equipment itself

- Experience with Cloud-based architecture (AWS, etc.)

Responsibilities:

- Work collaboratively with laboratory scientists and our automation lab specialists to help connect instruments and systems, developing novel scripts, applications and data infrastructure where required, with a focus on lab instrumentation integrations.

- Effectively manage small projects from conception through completion with a wide variety of stakeholders.

- Work with WDC team to prioritize highest reward projects and help shape the group’s strategy.

- First line of defense in troubleshooting and error recovery.

Description:

The Workflow and Data Capture (WDC) team of Pharmacokinetics, Drug Metabolism and Bioanalysis (PDMB) in MRL, is seeking a DURATION Contract Lab Automation Specialist to support ongoing and new efforts to optimize our data collection and use in inventing new medicines at a cutting-edge automated incubation lab at our West Point (PA) site.

The WDC team’s focus is on streamlining the workflows for improving automation and scientific data capture [within the labs] to provide the foundation for Client’s translational modeling, AI/ML and decision-making platforms in our mission to develop ground-breaking medicines to improve patient’s lives.

A large portion of this work currently supports the development and operational standup and optimization of a novel automation lab at our West Point Site.

The candidate will play a key role in development and delivery of the connectivity solutions for our data streams, laboratory instrumentation, robots and data storage solutions working closely with scientists and technical IT partners alike.

The successful candidate will be part of a collaborative cross disciplinary team working closely with other research functions and our IT colleagues.

Candidates must be willing to collaborate with our scientists to understand and uncover needs in workflow and data capture, sharing broadly with the team to help build and execute strategy and to aid in implementation of innovative solutions.