Job Title: Engineering Manager
Software / Opentrons Robotics
Reports to: Senior Director, Software
Direct Reports: Yes
FLSA Classification: Exempt
Location: Hybrid at Innolabs - Long Island City (Queens) NY
About Us
Opentrons Labworks, Inc. is a disruptive life science company leveraging its integrated lab platform to supercharge the pace of innovation in research and healthcare. Opentrons Labworks is the parent company to business units Opentrons Robotics and Neochromosome. Through Opentrons Robotics, thousands of institutions are automating R&D operations with flexible, easy-to-use liquid handling lab robots. Through Neochromosome, biopharma and biotech at large can benefit from our world-class genome-scale cell engineering solutions.
If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, come join us! We provide excellent benefits, competitive compensation, equity packages, and opportunities for growth. Learn more on our Careers Website.
About the Role
The Opentrons Software Team is responsible for the software, firmware, and embedded operating system that powers our robotic liquid handling platform and peripherals. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager that will lead engineers responsible for enhancing and maintaining the user-facing applications that empower our users. An Engineering Manager at Opentrons is a player-coach role that guides their team of direct reports and collaborates with product and design teams to deliver customer-driven outcomes.
In addition to delivery and technical responsibilities, the Engineering Manager will also be responsible for guiding and developing engineers on their team through regular 1:1s, performance management and career growth planning. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of empowering people and delivering customer value. They have strong opinions (loosely held) about architecting reliable, flexible, and performant systems in both offline and cloud environments.
This is a hybrid position based in Long Island City (Queens), NY. The Engineering Manager reports to the Senior Director of Software.
What You Will Do

• Develop and execute technical project plans to enable new capabilities on cross-functional feature teams.
• Collaborate with engineering, product management and design teams to deliver a reliable platform.
• Contribute code alongside the team in a manner that enables delivery without creating bottlenecks.
• Advocate for engineering-driven initiatives into project prioritization, while articulating complex concepts to non-developers.
• Manage, mentor, coach, and grow an exceptional team of software engineers.
• Engage with our open-source community.

Who We Are Looking For

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent, relevant experience

Experience:

• 2 years of engineering management
• 6 years' experience of writing code for customer-facing products.
• Experience overseeing a team of engineers; assigning and reviewing work
• Experience hiring and training engineers
• Experience with React, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node, and Python.
• Experience with C/C , embedded systems, embedded Linux (Open Embedded)
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines on cloud environments preferred
• Experience project planning and setting timelines preferred
• Experience guiding teams to create well-tested, resilient applications
• Experience with robotics and an eagerness to learn.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Can bus communications, USB, SPI, Network, and robots
• Strong software engineering skills and fundamentals.
• Interest in biology and an eagerness to learn.
• Contributions or active maintenance of open-source software preferred

Working Conditions and Physical Effort

• Work is performed in a typical interior/office work environment
• Periodic travel to business shows or customer sites
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Limited physical effort required

Compensation Range:The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $165,000 and $188,000 per year; base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and years of experience. We typically target mid-range for well-qualified candidates. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including equity and full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. Following employment, growth beyond the hiring range is possible based on performance.

Opentrons Labworks Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

The position will be posted until a final candidate is selected for the requisition or the requisition has a sufficient number of applications.

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