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Develops post-training recipes and data pipelines for AI models, creates evaluations, builds agentic systems with custom tools, and integrates reasoning capabilities into live scientific workflows. The role collaborates with scientists, robotics engineers, and operations teams to improve experimental design and assay development while shaping the technical direction of a new machine learning team.

Maintain robot uptime and reliability for daily protocol runs, diagnose and resolve operational issues onsite, perform preventive maintenance and calibrations, monitor system health with dashboards and alerts, document incidents and resolutions, support engineering visits and validate deployments, and coordinate schedules with customer scientists.

Design, build, and maintain full-stack tools and internal systems to operate autonomous lab robots. Ship end-to-end features across React frontends, Node and Python services, and AWS infrastructure. Collaborate with scientists, operations, and robotics engineers to integrate AI-driven workflows and improve experiment design, monitoring, and analysis.

Design and implement robotics software for lab automation, including motion planning, collision avoidance, vision for consumables, simulation and on-robot integration, and collaborate with partner scientists to deploy scalable, robust solutions.

Operate core business systems for a fast-scaling startup: own day-to-day operations, fix cross-functional processes, build automations, support GTM and sales, and run high-value special projects to remove friction and increase velocity.

The Lab Operations Manager is responsible for overseeing lab operations, ensuring safety, compliance, and readiness, while managing inventories and facilities. They develop protocols, support team onboarding, and optimize workflows.

The Mechanical Engineer will design, test, and implement hardware for robotic automation, requiring testing and iteration on mechanical systems and CAD designs.

As a Tech Lead Manager, you will oversee full-stack systems development, mentor engineers, and make key architectural decisions while contributing code directly.