Scientist – Core Automation Full-time

Automation Engineering Scientist

Working at Bristol Myers Squibb is challenging, meaningful, and life-changing. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You'll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services, and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Automation Engineering Scientist to help plan and execute automation solutions to enable multimodality workflows, including innovative methodologies driven by autonomous AI-enhanced technologies. This role will be lab-based, providing support to integrated robotic platforms and laboratory instrumentation within the Discovery Biotherapeutics (DBTx) and Lead Discovery & Optimization (LDO) departments. The successful candidate will be based at our San Diego site, having regular interaction with biologists, engineers, and information technology staff locally and collaborating with other BMS research sites nationwide. They will support existing and enable future automated workflows, prioritizing and executing requests for automation hardware support, software programming/coding, and scheduler method development requests for staff, contractors, and external vendors. The position requires extensive lab presence, working across functions to plan and effectively run automation operations within biology teams spanning multiple modalities (i.e. small molecule, biologics, etc.). They will participate in the planning and execution of scalable and innovative automation strategies to meet project needs, including reconfiguration of lab equipment and engineering solutions for robotic platform challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Develop automation solutions, working with scientific stakeholders and vendors to design, deliver, install, test, and move technologies to production mode, including biological validation.
• Maintain laboratory equipment: diagnose hardware and software faults and perform hands-on troubleshooting, repairs, and calibrations for laboratory automation, computer systems, and stand-alone instruments
• Advanced automation scheduler programming and scripting, as well as coding solutions for data movement to LIMS and ELN software packages
• Collaborate within Automation team across sites to align overarching strategy for all BMS sites: a balance of standardization where appropriate, and local solutions to meet local needs
• Partner with Lab and Site Operations teams, scientific leaders, and external vendors to coordinate appropriate repairs, lab installation readiness, and lifecycle management planning

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Engineering field or Biological Sciences with 5+ years of experience across one or more of the following areas of specialization: high throughput screening, sample management, protein sciences, protein engineering, and/or cell culture
• Advanced understanding of laboratory automation, key standardized instrumentation (e.g. Lynx, PHERAstar, WELLJET, F.A.S.T., I.DOT), and automation scheduling software (e.g. Momentum, Cellario)
• Hands-on experience in calibrating, troubleshooting, and repairing laboratory automation, computer systems, and stand-alone instruments
• Automation engineering experience including computational coding (e.g. Python, LabVIEW, C#/.NET, MATLAB) troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing software and hardware failures
• Experience working in diverse, multi-disciplined groups and demonstrated ability to work in a matrix and multi-site work environments, manage multiple priorities, and at times, be self-directed
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills with strong customer focus
• Strong organizational mentality and methodology, including commitment to attention-to-detail
• Excellent written and communication skills