Scientists automate protocols with Medra’s autonomous robotic system. Backed by Lux and Menlo.
About the role
As a scientist on our forward-deployed team, your objective is to embed yourself with your scientific counterparts at the customer, acting as a true partner on their team to ensure that the Medra platform is achieving scientific outcomes and driving value for the organization. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Master's degree + 3 years of experience OR PhD in biological sciences or related field
- Deep scientific expertise as evidenced by a track record of top-tier publications / presentations
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively within a team
- Innate curiosity about science and technology
- Expertise in adapting scientific workflows for execution with robotics and automation equipment / instrumentation
- Hands-on experience with emerging AI/ML tools and technologies
More about this role
At Medra, our mission is to use AI, robotics, and biology to accelerate life science research, with the ultimate goal of eradicating disease. We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform:
🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity.
🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously.
This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things.
• We're a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers and scientists from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We're collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!
• As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.
• Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don't mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.
As a scientist on our...
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