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Twist Bioscience

Sr Scientist, Antibody Discovery

Quincy, MA · On-site

$96K - $131K/yr

Spend time performing wet-lab benchwork alongside the team based on workflow and assay development needs. It is anticipated that the role would involve an 80/20 split of analysis vs wet lab time.

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As of Aug 8, 2026, the average hourly pay for wet lab in Boston, MA is $24.48, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $19.86 and $26.39 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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A Wet Lab job involves conducting experiments that require handling liquids, chemicals, biological samples, or other wet materials in a controlled lab environment. Wet lab scientists and technicians perform tasks such as sample preparation, chemical mixing, and data analysis to support research in fields like biology, chemistry, and medicine. These roles typically require knowledge of lab safety protocols, proper equipment usage, and scientific techniques.

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In a Wet Lab position, your daily tasks may include preparing and running experiments, analyzing samples using specialized equipment, maintaining and calibrating instruments, and accurately recording data in lab notebooks or digital systems. You will also be responsible for keeping the lab clean and organized, adhering to safety protocols, and properly storing chemicals and biological materials. Collaboration is common, as you may work with other lab technicians, scientists, or research teams to support ongoing projects. This hands-on role is ideal for those who enjoy problem-solving and actively contributing to exciting scientific advancements.

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To thrive in a Wet Lab role, you need a solid understanding of laboratory techniques, safety protocols, and scientific methodology, often supported by a degree in biology, chemistry, or a related field. Familiarity with instruments like pipettes, centrifuges, spectrophotometers, and lab management software is typically required, along with knowledge of compliance standards such as GLP or OSHA. Strong attention to detail, problem-solving ability, and effective communication are valuable soft skills for managing experiments and collaborating with teammates. These qualities are essential to ensure accurate results, maintain a safe and organized lab environment, and contribute effectively to research objectives.

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Scientific Automation Engineer III

Generate Biomedicines

Somerville, MA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 23 days ago

Job description

The Role: 

Generate:Biomedicines is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Scientific Automation Engineer to join our team at the interface of lab automation, instrumentation, integrated workcells, custom hardware, and protein therapeutics discovery. 

This role will be central to sustaining and advancing Generate's wet lab platform, with particular emphasis on automated workflows spanning DNA production, protein production, cell culture, and screening & validation assays. Just as importantly, this individual will help extend Generate's capabilities beyond immediate scientific automation support by building and integrating custom instrument capabilities into the wet lab ecosystem and partnering on adjacent engineering efforts where thoughtful hardware, fluidics, or systems integration can unlock better science. 

The role sits within an organization of highly motivated scientists and engineers where collaboration and communication across technical disciplines drives the team's success. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in liquid handling, workcell automation, troubleshooting, scripting, and method development, along with experience building, adapting, or integrating instrumentation in close partnership with scientists and engineering team members. This role is well-suited for someone who can execute at a high technical level while thinking end-to-end about building scalable support through training, documentation, and handoff practices that increase scientist independence.  

Here's how you will contribute:

  • Drive reliability, troubleshooting, and method development for DNA/protein production and assay/readout workflows on integrated workcells, while improving throughput, parallelization, and data quality across platform and pipeline programs. 
  • Build, adapt, and integrate custom instrument capabilities into Generate's wet-lab platform, including in-house-built hardware, fluidic systems, or related technologies into scientist-facing workflows. 
  • Own critical automation and instrumentation problems end-to-end, from method design and system improvement through live troubleshooting on active runs, vendor coordination, documentation, and knowledge transfer. 
  • Partner closely with scientists to provide high-quality in-lab support, unblock experiments quickly, and identify new automation- or engineering-enabled capabilities that reduce timelines for production, scale-up, and future platform workflows. 

The Ideal Candidate will have:

  • BS + with 5+ years industry experience in science lab automation and analytical & process instrumentation development, MS with 3+ years industry experience, or PhD in engineering, biochemistry, computer science, physics, chemistry, life sciences, or a related field. 
  • Strong experience with liquid handlers and integrated workcells, including platforms such as Biomek, Tecan, Lynx, Hamilton, Opentrons, and/or similar systems. 
  • Experience owning workflows end-to-end, from method design and execution through debugging, documentation, and operational support. 
  • A strong drive to proactively hand-off workflows to scientists in a way that improves adoption, increases autonomy, and effective use of automation tools. 
  • Exceptional communication skills and proactivity to facilitate interactions between scientists, engineers, and other stakeholders that span a range of technical and scientific languages. 
  • Experience developing and/or deploying wet lab-facing agentic applications, e.g.  closed-loop experimental systems. 
  • Experience building, integrating, or supporting custom instrumentation, fluidic systems, and/or microfluidic devices in an R&D environment. 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience supporting DNA production, protein production, protein purification, cell culture, functional & binding assays, and/or related molecular biology workflows at scale. 
  • Significant experience with HighRes, Retisoft, and/or other advanced scheduling and orchestration systems and integrated hardware environments. 
  • Experience supporting platform transfer, vendor coordination, user training, or expansion of methods across multiple instruments and lab locations. 
  • Experience working in a highly collaborative, matrixed research environment where automation, platform engineering, and discovery teams are tightly integrated. 

Who Will Love This Job 

  • You are motivated working in fast-paced and dynamic research environments, with a drive to frequently move out of your immediate comfort zone and learn new things. 
  • You like working in the lab and helping scientists succeed not only by solving urgent problems, but by building systems, habits, and training that empowers them. 
  • You enjoy translating across biology, engineering, software, and instrumentation, and you are energized by working on problems that span automation as well as broader wet-lab engineering. 
  • You take a pragmatic, builder-oriented approach to method development and troubleshooting: moving fast, improving iteratively, and focusing on what will best unblock the science. 
  • You are curious and adaptable, and get excited by learning new devices, workflows, and biological contexts quickly while helping make the lab more capable over time. 

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About Generate Biomedicines

We are a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in drug design and development. We are advancing a new approach to drug creation-one grounded in the ability to design proteins with defined biological intent. By integrating machine learning with large-scale experimentation, this approach aims to reduce the uncertainty, time, and cost associated with developing protein-based medicines.

Founded in 2018, we are advancing a growing pipeline of clinical and preclinical programs across multiple disease areas and protein modalities. By unifying computational design and clinical development within a single operating model, we translate this approach into clinical-stage programs and are leading a shift from traditional drug discovery toward systematic drug generation.

At Generate:Biomedicines, we collaborate across disciplines in new ways to invent and innovate. We bring diverse perspectives to a shared goal of delivering better medicines to patients in need, faster, guided by our values and leadership behaviors.

Generate:Biomedicines is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Generate:Biomedicines does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Generate:Biomedicines or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Company's internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Generate:Biomedicines and the Company will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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