What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Scientist, Automation position at CEDENT?
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Principal Scientist - Automation to join our dynamic research team. The successful candidate will lead the development and implementation of advanced automation technologies to enhance our discovery workflows. This role requires a strong background in lab automation, experience with integrated robotic platforms, and the ability to collaborate across multiple scientific disciplines.
What You'll Do...:
What You'll Do...:
- Train users and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to improve workflow efficiency and process optimization.
- Explore and implement new automation technologies in collaboration with internal teams and vendors.
- Strategic vision – ensure alignment of automation activities with the overall company and group level objectives.
- Develop and enhance high-throughput automation workflows across the organization.
- Develop a program to maintain and troubleshoot key lab equipment – to include liquid handlers (e.g. Hamilton, Tecan, Echo, Certus), plate readers (Envision, Pherastar), HPLCs among others.
- 10 years experience in automation for biochemistry, chemistry, ADME or a related scientific discipline.
- Extensive background in lab automation and in the design, delivery and operation of integrated robotic platforms.
- Proven expertise with lab equipment that supports preclinical discovery lab activities (e.g. multimodal plate readers and liquid handlers, cell culture processes, UPLC-MS, prep-HPLC etc)
- Demonstrated experience in optimizing workflows and improving process efficiency.
- Excellent collaboration and teamwork skills, with experience working on interdisciplinary projects.
- Ability to train and mentor users on laboratory equipment.
- Eagerness to explore new technologies and work collaboratively with vendors.
- Experience coding workflows for automated scheduling software and liquid handling systems (for examples Cellario/Momentum/Green Button Go/Venus/Evoware)
- Experience in ADME/physicochemical automation and developing scripting/validation protocols is highly desirable.
