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Senior Software Engineer - Hardware Automation

Culture Biosciences LogoCulture Biosciences


Date Posted

03 Jun, 2023

Salary Offered

$170000 — $190000 yearly

Job Type

Full Time

Experience Required

6+ years

Remote Work

No

Stock Options

No

Vacancies

1 available


Learn more about us and apply here or directly on our website.

About Us:

Culture’s mission is to make bioprocess development and scale-up as fast and easy as scaling software. Towards this aim, Culture’s first offering enables biopharma, biotechnology, and synthetic biology companies to run their bioprocessing R&D in the cloud. Clients design, manage, and analyze bioprocess experiments in Culture’s Console web application. Culture’s offering enables customers to focus on designing and improving their process versus spending time and effort building out their own high-throughput process development laboratory. While customers remotely observe the process and analyze data, the experiments are executed in Culture’s cloud bioreactor facility in South San Francisco. The facility is enabled by Culture’s proprietary 250mL and 5L single-use bioreactor technology and software systems.

At Culture, we combine our passions for biomanufacturing, engineering, and operations to build new solutions that make bioprocess development and scale-up faster. We value curiosity, communication, collaboration, customer focus and a drive for results.

The Opportunity:

We’re looking for a software developer to help us create robust automation tools and streamline the biomanufacturing R&D process. An ideal candidate has worked on application code, cloud and/or local infrastructure and automation. In this position you'll be collaborating with mechanical engineers, embedded systems engineers, and other software engineers, so thriving in a cross-functional environment is a must. You'll be responsible for integrating new hardware systems to the Culture's software backend. The ability and interest in designing user interfaces for those systems is also strongly desired.

What you'll do:

Design, build, test, and maintain software tools and scripts to run physical automation systems Implement feedback control loops, data smoothing algorithms, and graceful failure modes Develop a sustainable deployment process Quickly prototype proof of concept systems and evaluate technical feasibility Balance technical performance, complexity, and reliability
Work cross-functionally to develop and maintain automation systems, including user testing and feedback, training, and documentation Collaborate with end-users, other software engineers, and mechanical engineers to understand design requirements and implement feedback Participate in design reviews Work on multiple projects simultaneously Mentor more junior engineers and provide guidance on best practices

About you:

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise or cloud software.
  • Experience using Python and tools like Ansible, Docker and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Comfortable with development best practices such as continuous integration.
  • Experience developing software that interfaces directly with hardware, including modifying embedded code, navigating datasheets and validating hands-on with hardware.
  • Proven ability to take a thoughtful, pragmatic, and efficient approach to problem solving.
  • Passionate about up-leveling yourself and those around you through curiosity, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
  • Strong communicator interested in working in a multidisciplinary team.

In return, we offer a supportive environment. We value:

  • Lifting each other up and enabling others to be their best
  • Commitment to reliability
  • Empowering ownership to drive progress
  • Trying new things; big innovations start with small ideas and actions

Location & Schedule:

This is a hybrid position. We’re looking for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area who is able to work in person at our office in South San Francisco at least 1 day per week.

Base Salary Range:

Culture Biosciences's compensation package includes market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, and great benefits. If you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, our expected cash compensation for this role is $170,000 - $190,000. We are hiring for multiple levels and backgrounds so final offers may vary within the range provided based on experience, expertise, and other factors.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and equity compensation
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
  • Medical and Dependent Care FSA (prorated based on start-date) 401(k) plan with company match
  • 3 weeks of accrued paid time off, 10 paid company holidays and a week-long winter break
  • 12 weeks of parental leave at full salary
  • Annual L&D stipend for conferences, continuing education, etc.
  • WFH stipend of $500 for home office improvements
  • For onsite employees:
    • Commuter benefits
    • Access to on-site child care facility, subject to availability
    • Free onsite breakfast, lunch, snacks, coffee, and gym (varies based on COVID-19 restrictions)

Culture Biosciences provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. We seek to build a company that promotes inclusion and expands the diversity of our industry as a whole. We encourage people with identities underrepresented in biotech and technology to apply.

About Culture Biosciences

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We grow cells for biotech companies.

Company Size: 11 - 50 People
Year Founded: Not Specified
Country: United States

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