Transcriptic, a robotic cloud laboratory, is looking for software engineers

Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done. We're funded by IA Ventures, Data Collective, Google Ventures, Founders Fund, AME Cloud Ventures, among others. Transcriptic's stack runs from bacteria growing in petri dishes through mechanical, electrical and industrial design up to user-facing data analysis tools in the browser. We're looking for highly talented software engineers to join our small, focused team. At a high level, our stack is Rails/Coffeescript/Backbone/Postgres/Mongo (Web) and Scala/RabbitMQ/Zookeeper/Python (Infrastructure). Things you might be interested at doing at Transcriptic: - Working with Ph.D. biologists to design and build tools for scientists to express an experiment they want to run, - Writing drivers for in-house and/or off-the-shelf robotic hardware to integrate with our automated workcell, - Solving a complex and deep planning and scheduling problem and optimizing workcell efficiency, - Building internal tools for controlling and monitoring a warehouse full of robots, - Working on the web interfaces used by customer to manage their inventory, execute runs, design protocols, and visualize their data. If you're interested, send an email to max@transcriptic.com and cc jeremy@transcriptic.com, and we'll follow up soon. Menlo Park, CA