Engineer I, Research Operations (2nd Shift) (Lab Automation)

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA; on-site second shift from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Salary: $75,600–$100,800 USD base salary per year, with bonus potential and early-stage equity.

Company

hirify.global is building AI-driven scientific systems and automated laboratory instruments to accelerate discovery across medicine, materials, and energy.

What you will do

• Execute high-throughput automated and manual laboratory workflows using integrated workcells and liquid-handling platforms such as Hamilton, Lynx, Echo, or similar systems.
• Prepare, organize, and verify reagents, samples, labware, and consumables.
• Monitor active workflows, identify equipment or process issues, perform first-line troubleshooting and recovery, and escalate complex problems.
• Perform equipment checks, cleaning, maintenance, and readiness activities.
• Review quality-control outputs and maintain accurate experimental, equipment, process, and sample-traceability records.
• Provide end-of-shift handoffs, collaborate across scientific and engineering teams, and contribute to workflow improvement and cross-training.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, molecular biology, bioengineering, or a related scientific or engineering field, or equivalent education and laboratory experience.
• At least 3 years of relevant co-op and industry laboratory experience.
• Hands-on experience with pipetting, reagent preparation, and aseptic technique in molecular biology, microbiology, biotechnology, protein science, or a related field.
• Strong attention to detail, documentation, analytical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to organize work, manage multiple priorities, and operate reliably in a fast-paced, high-throughput laboratory.
• Ability to work on-site during the scheduled second shift from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

Nice to have

• Experience with automated liquid handlers, integrated laboratory workcells, or high-throughput production-oriented laboratories.
• Experience reviewing automated workflow quality-control data or using laboratory information management, sample-tracking, or workflow-scheduling systems.
• Experience troubleshooting laboratory automation, maintaining equipment, or improving processes.
• Experience with protein purification or characterization, cell culture, DNA or RNA workflows, or lipid nanoparticle formulation and handling.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Benefits include employer-paid life and disability insurance, flexible time off, company-wide holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Educational assistance, commuter benefits, bike-share memberships for office-based employees, and a subsidized lunch program are provided.
• Compensation includes potential bonus and early-stage equity.
• Work is guided by values including truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity.