Automation Engineer II

At Amyris, we value that everyone’s career journey is unique and authentic to who they are. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply and grow alongside us! You may be just the right candidate for this or other open roles.

Ready to put your hands-on laboratory automation experience to work while growing your programming skills?

Join Amyris as a Lab Automation Engineer II and help scientists work faster and more reliably by supporting, troubleshooting, and improving automated laboratory workflows. You’ll work directly with liquid handlers, laboratory instrumentation, scientists, and experienced automation engineers to develop reliable, high-throughput workflows—from genetic design through screening and analysis.

If you enjoy solving practical hardware and workflow challenges and want to build your scripting and programming capabilities, this is an opportunity to make a visible impact on a production-scale synthetic biology platform.

*This is a fully onsite role based in Emeryville, CA.

Responsibilities

• Method & Workflow Development: Support the development, modification, testing, and deployment of automated laboratory methods on liquid handlers and other laboratory automation platforms. Execute defined method-development activities independently and work with more experienced automation engineers on complex or integrated workflows. • Laboratory Workflow Automation: Work with automation engineers, scientists, and laboratory users to understand manual…