Software Engineer, Automation and Control

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $130k - $165k / year

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Culture Biosciences

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51 - 200 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $80M Series B on 2021-10

Biotechnology • Artificial Intelligence

Culture Biosciences is a company specializing in cloud-connected bioreactors for cell culture experiments. They offer a unique platform that allows for increased flexibility and efficiency in bioprocess development, enabling faster progression from idea to insight. Their services include scalable and reproducible modular bioreactors, which can be controlled and monitored through their Console TM software. Culture Biosciences is actively involved in areas such as protein therapeutics, viral vector production, and synthetic biology, helping to accelerate development and optimize processes without the need for extensive internal infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain automation systems for bioreactor and bioprocessing operations • Tune and troubleshoot real-world control loops, diagnosing oscillation, lag, overshoot, and instability • Improve automation reliability through monitoring, logging, fault detection, and recovery mechanisms • Evolve the AsyncAPI hardware interface so higher-level automation and AI systems can safely interact with physical equipment • Improve existing control-loop tuning and failure modes • Develop and optimize new feedback control systems, including PID loops, for stability, performance, and robustness • Build software interfaces for sensors, actuators, embedded controllers, and orchestration systems • Partner with mechanical, electrical, process, and software engineers to translate requirements into reliable control implementations • Learn about biotechnology and bioprocess development

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of industry experience including 2+ years developing software • Working knowledge of sensors, actuators, and data acquisition, including failure modes • Strong understanding of classical control theory, especially PID control, feedback loops, stability, response tuning, and disturbance rejection • Strong working relationship with scientists and ability to translate process requirements into control logic • Technical rigor in testing assumptions, validating behavior against data, and understanding failure modes • Strong systems thinking and ability to work across hardware and software boundaries • Experience in robotics, manufacturing automation, biotech automation, or other complex electromechanical systems (preferred) • Professional software engineering experience, including CI and automated testing (preferred) • AWS, Docker, infrastructure as code, or connected edge devices (preferred) • Exposure to regulated environments (GLP/GMP, ISO) (preferred) • Familiarity with sampling, filtering, sensor noise, and actuator constraints (preferred) • Kindness, curiosity, and willingness to learn

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity compensation • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance • Medical and Dependent Care FSA (prorated based on start-date) • 401(k) plan with company match • Responsible Time Off (non-accrual based) policy • 11 paid company holidays • Week-long winter break • 12 weeks of parental leave at full salary