# Senior Automation Engineer, Platform Biology at Flagship Pioneering

- Company: Flagship Pioneering
- What the company does: Pioneering Partnerships Latest News.
- Company website: https://www.flagshippioneering.com
- Type: VC firms
- Level: Senior
- Location: Cambridge, MA USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $108K to $171K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/flagshippioneeringinc/jobs/8651011002?gh_jid=8651011002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/flagship-pioneering-senior-automation-engineer-platform-biology/

## About the role

Vesalius Therapeutics is pioneering a new platform to generate breakthrough treatments for common diseases. Our platform combines large-scale human genetics, genomics, stem cell studies, high-dimensional cellular phenotyping, and artificial intelligence to uncover causal biology and identify optimal intervention points for new therapies. Vesalius was founded in 2019 by Flagship Pioneering.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, computational biology or a related field, or a life science degree with a demonstrated programming record
- 4+ years building software, tooling or data infrastructure in a laboratory or R&D setting, including time as the person accountable for a system other people depended on daily
- Strong Python and SQL: joins, aggregates, CTEs and window functions
- Deep hands-on experience with a LIMS or ELN and its API. Benchling strongly preferred, Sapio, Dotmatics, LabVantage or similar all count
- Experience shipping and operating a web application: a REST API, a front-end for other users, including authentication, deployment and maintenance
- Experience with how data moves through a laboratory: how a sample is registered, how it becomes an experiment, how instrument output is captured, and how a result is attached back to the sample

Tags: Biological Engineering

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