Senior Automation Engineer (Sr. Engineer II)

Generate:Biomedicines is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Automation Engineer to join our team at the interface of lab instrumentation, integrated workcells, custom hardware, and protein therapeutics discovery.

This role will be central to sustaining and advancing Generate’s wet lab platform, with particular emphasis on automated workflows spanning DNA production, protein production, cell culture, and screening & validation assays. Just as importantly, this senior engineer will extend Generate’s capabilities beyond immediate automation support by building and integrating custom instrument capabilities into the wet lab ecosystem and leading adjacent engineering efforts where thoughtful hardware, fluidics, or systems integration can unlock better science.

The role serves as the automation engineering lead both as an individual contributor and the direct manager of automation engineers. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in liquid handling, workcell automation, scripting, wet lab agentic deployment, and method development, along with experience building, adapting, or integrating instrumentation in close partnership with scientists and the rest of the engineering team. This role is well-suited for someone who can execute at a high technical level while thinking end-to-end about building scalable support through training, documentation, AI, and handoff practices that increase scientist independence.