Founding Robotics Engineer

What if the next breakthrough in medicine wasn’t limited by biology, but by engineering?

We’re working with a venture-backed deep-tech company building a new generation of automated scientific instruments that combine robotics, software, fluidics, and advanced biological workflows into a single platform.

They’re looking for a Robotics Engineer to join the core team and take ownership of turning complex laboratory processes into reliable, automated systems.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll work across hardware integration, automation, instrument control, workflow orchestration, and system reliability.

You’ll be the kind of engineer who enjoys connecting devices that weren’t designed to work together, building robust workflows around imperfect real-world systems, and debugging problems that sit somewhere between software, hardware, and physics.

Some of the challenges include:

• Integrating liquid handlers, thermal systems, plate readers, and custom instrumentation
• Building automated workflows that execute complex multi-step scientific processes end-to-end
• Developing instrument control layers, device communication, and workflow orchestration
• Designing error handling, quality control checkpoints, and system telemetry
• Working closely with scientists to transform manual experimental procedures into repeatable automated routines

We’re especially interested in people who have experience with laboratory automation, scientific instrumentation, robotics, mechatronics, or complex hardware-software systems.

You might have worked with Opentrons, Hamilton, Tecan, Beckman, custom robotics platforms, industrial automation systems, or benchtop scientific instruments.

The ideal person has helped take a sophisticated physical product from prototype to production and enjoys operating where engineering disciplines overlap.

Small team.

High ownership.

Real technical challenges.

The opportunity to build technology that could significantly accelerate scientific discovery.

UK-based. Right to work required.

If this sounds like your kind of engineering problem, I’d love to hear from you.