Automation/Instrumentation Engineer at Careers Integrated Resources Inc

Title: Automation/Instrumentation Engineer

Location: West Point, PA

Duration: 12+ Months

Job Description:

• Work collaboratively with laboratory scientists and our automation lab specialists to help connect instruments and systems, developing Client scripts, applications and data infrastructure where required, with a focus on lab instrumentation integrations.
• Effectively manage small projects from conception through completion with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Work with WDC team to prioritize highest reward projects and help shape the group’s strategy.
• First line of defense in troubleshooting and error recovery.
• The Workflow and Data Capture (WDC) team of Pharmacokinetics, Drug Metabolism and Bioanalysis (PDMB) in client, is seeking a DURATION Contract Lab Automation Specialist to support ongoing and new efforts to optimize our data collection and use in inventing new medicines at a cutting-edge automated incubation lab at our West Point (PA) site.
• The WDC team’s focus is on streamlining the workflows for improving automation and scientific data capture [within the labs] to provide the foundation for Client’s translational modeling, AI/ML and decision-making platforms in our mission to develop ground-breaking medicines to improve patient’s lives.
• A large portion of this work currently supports the development and operational standup and optimization of a Client automation lab at our West Point Site. The candidate will play a key role in development and delivery of the connectivity solutions for our data streams, laboratory instrumentation, robots and data storage solutions working closely with scientists and technical IT partners alike.

Qualifications--

• Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Life Sciences or equivalent with 2-3 years of relevant experience.
• Must be a self-starter, able to work in an entrepreneurial and independent way when required.
• Must be a team player with strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience in software development or working with lab data capture systems or automation.
• Experience with scripting/programing in the following: python, C#, R, Spotfire, PowerBI, VBScript , SQL
• Experienced with common data structures and queries like SQL, Oracle and other databases