Medra
Systems Test Engineer - Contract
San Francisco · Junior
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About the role
- We're looking for a Systems Test Engineer to be our front line of robot uptime at Medra Lab 001.
- You'll work on-site to monitor daily protocol runs, respond to issues in real time, keep the system running smoothly and help engineering team prioritize and ship improvements.
- This is a high-impact role where your reliability directly enables cutting-edge biological research.
Responsibilities
- Maintain robot uptime and reliability across daily protocol runs, ensuring the system performs at peak efficiency
- Perform routine calibration checks and preventive maintenance on the robot, peripherals, and consumables
- Document all incidents, resolutions, and observations to build a reliable knowledge base of site-specific issues and drive data-driven improvements over time
- Collaborate cross-functionally with customer scientists to coordinate run schedules and communicate system status
- Willingness to be on-call or adjust schedule to support critical customer runs when needed
Requirements
- Experience with observability or monitoring tools (dashboards, alerting systems, log analysis)
- 1+ years of experience in a manufacturing support, field engineering, QA, or production support roles
- Familiarity with life science lab equipment
Skills
- Monitor system health proactively using dashboards and alerting tools to catch issues before they cause production failures
Company info
- 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.
- We're Building:
- 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.
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