23 days ago
Lausanne, SwitzerlandMid Level
Responsibilities
- Programmatically control laboratory instruments and develop drivers using Python and related tooling.
- Integrate multiple instruments into orchestrated, unattended work cells.
- Reverse-engineer instrument control protocols and bring new devices online.
- Build software drivers, integrations, and services connecting hardware to the company platform, primarily in Python with some TypeScript.
- Partner with biologists to convert assays into reliable automated workflows.
- Diagnose and repair mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software failures in 24/7 production systems.
- Improve throughput, reliability, error recovery, scheduling, and hardware robustness.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills, especially writing maintainable Python for drivers, integrations, and services.
- Hands-on experience automating laboratory instruments and workflows; experience with PyHamilton, PyLabRobot, Opentrons, or similar tools is preferred.
- Ability to reverse-engineer systems, debug across software, firmware, electronics, and mechanics, and work independently.
- Comfort using coding agents such as Claude Code and applying sound judgment to their output.
- Hardware experience with electronics, microcontrollers, 3D printing, CAD, or fabrication is beneficial but not required.
- A biology background is not required, but enthusiasm for automated biological experimentation is expected.
Benefits
- Full-time role based on-site in Lausanne, Switzerland, working with physical laboratory systems.
- Expected start date is ASAP; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
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About Adaptyv
Adaptyv Bio builds an automated protein foundry—an AI-driven lab that lets software agents run biology experiments—to synthesize and test custom-designed proteins for R&D teams in biotech and pharma. Customers use its platform to submit designs and receive expression and functional data for protein engineering. The company is privately held and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.