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Project Scientist - Automation Engineer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Posted 53 days ago
Project Scientist - Automation Engineer
🔍 Bay Area, California, United States
💼 GO-Energy Geosciences
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107135 Requisition #
Berkeley Lab’s Energy Geosciences Division seeks a Project Scientist - Automation Engineer to lead automation development for REACT, an AI-driven materials chemistry laboratory that includes the ARC and HIPASS platforms. You will design and integrate scientific instruments, robotic workflows, embedded controls, and software that enable autonomous experimentation in mineral processing, materials synthesis, and chemical research.
METALLIC is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional program advancing technologies to strengthen the domestic supply of critical minerals and materials for clean energy. In this role, you will collaborate with experts across science, engineering, robotics, and data science to accelerate discovery and processing while reducing waste and improving supply chain resilience.
You will:
- Hardware Design & Integration: Design, build, and integrate custom scientific instruments and robotic systems for autonomous materials and chemistry workflows, including sample handling, reaction processing, and characterization.
- Control Systems: Develop electrical control systems for safe, reliable operation of high-temperature, cryogenic, and aqueous reaction environments.
- Software Development: Develop embedded software, firmware, and user interfaces for instrumentation, robotics, sensors, and data acquisition.
- Robotics: Integrate collaborative robots with custom hardware to enable end-to-end autonomous experimentation.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with scientists, AI/ML researchers, and software engineers to translate scientific requirements into automated, AI-driven laboratory systems.
- Safety & Compliance: Design fault-tolerant hardware and software with a focus on chemical, thermal, and robotic safety.
- Vendor Management: Define technical specifications and provide engineering guidance to external equipment vendors.
- Support procurement activities by developing statements of work, evaluating vendor proposals, conducting design reviews, and verifying delivered equipment against technical requirements.
- Promote reusable engineering solutions and knowledge sharing across autonomous laboratory projects at Berkeley Lab and partner institutions.
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