Merge Labs · 23 hours ago
Automation Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$165K/yr - $215K/yrMerge Labs is a frontier research lab focused on bridging biological and artificial intelligence to enhance human capabilities. The Automation Engineer will build automation pipelines to support research programs, collaborating closely with scientists and engineers to innovate and streamline experimental processes.
BiotechnologyHuman ResourcesSoftware
Responsibilities
Partner with program leads and project scientists to define experimental automation needs and key approaches
Apply biological context and experimental understanding to guide automation strategy and execution
Scope, acquire, build, program and validate instrumentation and software and teach project teams to use them
Own the quality, reliability, and integrity off data produced by automated pipelines, including defining and integrating appropriate QC checkpoints
Collaborate with data science/ML engineers to integrate metadata tracking, computational design, and analysis into experimental pipelines
Collaborate with electrical, mechanical and software engineers to build custom setups
Conceive, design, and validate creative automation strategies to improve experimental throughput
Serve as an integral member of research project teams and contribute your insights to project design, execution and analysis
Qualification
Required
Have a background in engineering, robotics or similar field with extensive experience in biology, or a background in biology or bioengineering with extensive experience in automation engineering
Have developed high throughput experimental pipelines involving mammalian cell culture, microscopy, molecular assembly, next-generation sequencing or protein engineering
Have built unusual setups that required custom components that you couldn't get off the shelf
Love getting your hands dirty with equipment setup, code writing, biological experiments and data analysis — whatever is needed
Love learning new science and developing new capabilities
Have worked in a fast-paced biotech/techbio, ideally startup, environment and loved it
Have high agency to initiate and drive efforts, constantly ideate and look to make improvements
Have strong communication skills and enjoy collaborating with researchers to help them accelerate their projects
Have come up with creative or unexpected solutions to tricky problems
Company
Merge Labs
Merge Labs provides a single API to connect software applications with multiple third-party platforms.
Founded in 2025
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$252MKey Investors
OpenAI
2026-01-15Seed· $252M
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