Automation Service Engineer
Location: South San Francisco,California,United States
About us
Counsyl is a technology company that strives to give millions of men and women access to vital information about their bodies, helping them confidently make choices about their lives. The team consists of world class engineers, scientists and clinical experts as well as a renowned engineering and scientific advisory board. Counsyl integrates sophisticated technology with custom robotic automation in its accredited medical laboratory. This focus on technology has made Counsyl a leader in helping patients and doctors communicate about medical results in real time. Its products have won the Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Award for Medicine, and have been named one of Scientific American's "Top 10 World Changing Ideas."
Counsyl’s Family Prep Screen has already helped hundreds of thousands of people discover critical information before having children, and the Counsyl platform extends beyond family preparation to include inherited cancer screening. Counsyl has raised a total of $93M and is privately funded by Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Google executive David Drummond.
About you
You should have a BS in Electrical, Mechanical, or Biomechanical Engineering (or equivalent) and/or independent experience working on laboratory or robotic hardware as displayed by prior employment. The following should also describe you:
You have the attentiveness and vigilance to maintain a complex suite of robotic equipment
You know when the solution to a problem is hardware, software, or both
You recognize quickly when you see a superior solution and are not afraid to incorporate changes
The prospect of a fully automated genome factory gets you excited
You want to experience the rise of a startup from the inside, and want to learn everything you don’t yet know to perform optimally in a fast-paced environment
What you'll do
Take responsibility for uptime on a multi-million dollar pipeline through equipment maintenance
Troubleshoot hardware problems, oversee repairs, and incorporate critical feature requests and improvements in a clinical laboratory
Work closely with other automation engineers to develop and validate hardware solutions to all in-house automation needs
Identify, design, and implement solutions to increase reliability and maintainability of robotics suite
Design, fabricate, and deploy low-volume custom hardware: from sensor-driven electrical circuits to structural supports for heavy equipment
- Help specify and implement custom software tools to improve efficiency of robotics stack (robots, gantries, PLCs, scheduling, tracking, safety, etc...)