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Senior Automation Engineer, Platform Biology at Flagship Pioneering, Inc. | LAYIQ

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, computational biology or a related field, or a life science degree with a demonstrated programming record.
4+ years building software, tooling or data infrastructure in a laboratory or R&D setting, including time as the person accountable for a system other people depended on daily.
Strong Python and SQL: joins, aggregates, CTEs and window functions.
Deep hands-on experience with a LIMS or ELN and its API. Benchling strongly preferred; Sapio, Dotmatics, LabVantage or similar all count.
Experience shipping and operating a web application: a REST API, a front-end for other users, including authentication, deployment and maintenance.
Experience with how data moves through a laboratory: how a sample is registered, how it becomes an experiment, how instrument output is captured, and how a result is attached back to the sample.
Comfort with owning a domain independently, alongside strong scientific and hardware support.
Strong communication and documentation skills, and the ability to work effectively across scientific, automation, IT and data teams.
Preferred Experience
Benchling: entity schemas, the warehouse, Insights, the developer platform, webhooks or apps.
Parsing instrument output (plate readers, imagers, sequencers) into structured results tied to a sample.
Cloud infrastructure such as AWS, event-driven integrations, or data pipelines supporting automated laboratory environments.
Working alongside automated liquid handlers, integrated workcells or laboratory scheduling software (Hamilton, Tecan, HighRes Biosolutions, Dynamic Devices, Beckman or similar), as an integrator rather than a programmer.
Mammalian cell culture at the bench, especially iPSC systems, and aseptic technique.
Prior experience working in an automation-heavy laboratory environment.
Ability to troubleshoot across software, hardware, instrument communication, data and sample-tracking workflows.
Mentoring, or growing a small team.
A regulated or GxP-adjacent environment or writing validation and verification documentation.
At Flagship, we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core values guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.
We are an equal opportunity employer
. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We recognize that great candidates often bring unique strengths without fulfilling every qualification
. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your background and interest in Flagship.
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: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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