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Base Salary
$130k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery and roadmap definition for high-impact customer projects.
- Translate scientific workflows into technical requirements and support system architecture from conception through delivery.
- Develop interfaces between robots, scientific instruments, and software, and build production scientific workflows.
- Integrate, test, and debug software solutions in simulation and on physical robots.
- Support integration testing, customer-site bring-up, scientific validation, and deployment troubleshooting.
- Diagnose failures across software, instrument behavior, robotics, and customer infrastructure with specialist engineering teams.
- Extend deployed systems for new instruments, consumables, and workflows, including verified releases and operating guidance.
- Generalize deployment learnings into reusable integrations, tests, diagnostics, and tooling.
- Explain technical decisions, limitations, risks, and tradeoffs to customers and teammates.
- Travel to customer sites approximately 30% of the time.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code.
- Experience designing, implementing, testing, or debugging interfaces in production systems.
- Experience delivering technical solutions with customers or users from ambiguous problems through working solutions.
- Interest in robotics, automation, and physical AI, with willingness to work directly with physical systems.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs and surface problems early.
- Preferred experience shipping products that combine software and hardware.
- Preferred forward-deployed engineering or direct responsibility for customer implementations.
- Preferred production coding experience in Python, C++, or Rust.
- Preferred experience designing APIs, distributed systems, integration tests, reliability tests, observability, or deployment tooling.
- Preferred experience with robotics, laboratory automation, or biology.
Benefits
- 401(k).
- Medical insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Relocation benefits.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Weekday dinners.
- 100% in-person work from the San Francisco office with no hybrid option.
- Approximately 30% travel to customer sites.
About Medra
Medra builds Physical AI for laboratories: robotic systems and software that run experiments, analyze data, and iterate to accelerate R&D. It partners with biopharma companies to automate wet-lab workflows, offering an integrated hardware–software platform and services. Medra is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco.