Equipment Engineer II
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 101600 - 152400
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At Adaptive were Powering the Age of Immune Medicine. Our goal is to harness the power of the adaptive immune system to transform the way diseases are diagnosed and treated.
As an Adapter youll have the opportunity to make a difference in peoples lives. With Adaptive youll create a career highlight through collaboration with bright curious colleagues working at the apex of innovation and application.
Its time for your next chapter. Discover your story with Adaptive.
Position Overview
The Equipment Engineer II supports a fleet of lab and facility equipment and demonstrates emerging strengths in Development or Operations capabilities without direct supervision. This role may contribute through rapid service response to maintain instrument uptime development and implementation of continuous improvement projects deployment and control of laboratory solutions and/or hardware and software integration of lab and facility equipment with LIMS or other management systems.
Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions
- Performs preventative maintenance and calibration of complex lab equipment (e.g. liquid handlers sequencers)
- Supports hardware and software integrations with software platforms (e.g. LIMS log management services schedulers orchestrators etc.) with lab equipment (e.g. liquid handlers)
- Supports Equipment Lifecycle Management processes and procedures by supporting and maintaining equipment records for traceability purposes
- Participates in equipment and automation development lifecycles with developing emphasis on specific lifecycle phases.
- Drives ideation and implements continuous improvement ideas for relevant business and laboratory process step(s)
- Coordinates routine maintenance and calibration of lab and facility equipment with external vendors and suppliers.
- May support internal and external audits with review of equipment records and related procedures.
- Trains end users and teammates with a customer-first mindset
- Partners cross-functionally to propose and deploy equipment solutions that meet functional requirements and prioritize reliability scalability and efficiency.
- Performs hardware and software integrations with software platforms (e.g. LIMS log management services schedulers orchestrators etc.) with lab equipment (e.g. liquid handlers) for enhanced capabilities or observability.
- Supports equipment and automation development lifecycles with emerging emphasis on multiple lifecycle phases.
- Serves as a subject matter expert for relevant business and laboratory processes or equipment; drives ideation and implements continuous improvement projects for processes and workflows.
- Consults and/or analyzes business cases for development and operations using a data-driven approach; may support service contract negotiations.
- Prepares reviews and approves documents (e.g. protocols reports nonconformances risk assessments change control requests) to ensure compliance in Quality environment.
- Develops training programs for end users and serves as a technical coach or project lead for internal group projects.
- All other duties as assigned.
Position Requirements (Education Experience Other)
Required
- Bachelors in engineering or science 5 yrs. related experience
- Masters in science or engineering 3 yrs. related experience
- PhD in Science or Engineering
- Ability to author Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) equipment and method IQOQ plans and reports and Change Control Requests (CCRs) and Design Input Requirements (DIRs)
- Solid customer-first communication skills as a team representative
- Experience working with commerical off-the-shelf benchtop lab equipment and automated liquid handling platforms (e.g. Hamilton Tecan Dynamic Devices Formulatrix)
- Ability to troubleshoot and solve engineering problems with structured approaches and suggest improvements (e.g. application of first principles Lean Six Sigma)
- Abilities for developing solutions for moderately complex problems assessing risk and reward of engineering design decisions using structured methodologies for troubleshooting and multi-tasking on multiple projects.
- Experience with laboratory integrations of hardware (e.g. liquid handlers environmental sensors) with software platforms (e.g. LIMS log management services schedulers orchestrators etc.)
- Effective communication skills as a leader of projects and a basic understanding of project management especially with regards to risk identification and mitigation and adherence to deliverable timelines
- Ability to gather requirements optimize processes and design lab solutions to support the business.
- Strong record of authoring plans protocols and reports for equipment qualification and validation design input requirements and specifications consistent with customer needs
- Experience developing and reporting metrics.
Preferred
- Experience 3 years of using programming languages (e.g. VB Python C# JavaScript) to enhance off-the-shelf functionality of lab and facility equipment; experience with version control systems (e.g Git).
- Experience with analytical and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau SQL R)
- Experience with laboratory operations (i.e. scaling and sustaining)
- Experience with Agile or DevOps practices
- Experience with molecular biology techniques (e.g. PCR NGS analytical QC)
Working Conditions
- Working in a laboratory environment with human specimens. Requires training on laboratory health and safety practices and spill response
- Might be requested to work off standard hours weekends and holidays
Physical Requirements
- Physically able to lift 50 pounds
Compensation
Salary Range: $101600 - $152400
Possible other compensation elements to include:
- equity grant
- bonus eligible
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Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Food Safety
- LAN
- Accomodation
- Instrumentation Engineering
- AC Maintenance
- Client Services
About Company
Adaptive Biotechnologies is harnessing the immune system to unleash its power as a natural diagnostic and therapeutic tool to propel a paradigm shift in medicine.
