Sr. Global Field Application Scientist Liquid Handling and Automation (AI)

Location: Remote, North America-based; approximately 50–70% overnight and international travel required. Support split is approximately 80% North America and 20% global.

Salary: $170,000–$190,000 annually, plus bonus or incentive pay.

Company

Molecular Devices, a hirify.global operating company, develops automated and AI-enabled technologies for life science research, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

What you will do

• Serve as the application and liquid handling subject matter expert for CellXpress.ai evaluations, implementations, workflow optimization, and adoption.
• Develop, test, optimize, document, and troubleshoot liquid handling scripts and automated workflows, primarily for Hamilton platforms.
• Translate customer cell culture protocols and laboratory processes into reliable, repeatable, and scalable automated workflows.
• Support technical discovery, feasibility assessments, demonstrations, presentations, installations, training, and post-installation optimization.
• Diagnose application, scripting, workflow, labware, consumable, software, and hardware issues while coordinating escalations with service, engineering, software, and product teams.
• Maintain workflow maps, scripting records, method specifications, training materials, troubleshooting guidance, and customer handoff documentation.

Requirements

• Must be based in North America and able to travel approximately 50–70%, including overnight and international travel.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a related scientific or technical discipline.
• At least 5 years of application experience supporting laboratory automation, automated liquid handling, cell culture automation, or related life science instrumentation.
• Hands-on experience developing, scripting, testing, optimizing, and troubleshooting automated liquid handling methods; Hamilton platform experience is required.
• Experience translating manual laboratory protocols into automated workflows, including workflow mapping, labware and consumable selection, and acceptance criteria documentation.

Nice to have

• Field Application Scientist, Field Application Specialist, or Applications Engineer experience with life science instrumentation or laboratory automation.
• Experience supporting customer applications from discovery and feasibility testing through installation, validation, training, and post-installation optimization.
• Experience with automated cell culture, cell line development, cell-based assays, drug discovery, high-throughput screening, synthetic biology, genomic, or bioprocessing workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement from the employee’s home.
• Paid time off and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) benefits for eligible employees.
• Work within a collaborative global sales organization focused on life science innovation and continuous improvement.