Laboratory Automation Specialist

Confidential

Budapest, Hungary permanent

Posted: January 30, 2026

Quick Summary

Join our team as a Laboratory Automation Specialist and help us understand and tackle cancer! You will be responsible for developing and maintaining laboratory automation and high-throughput screening protocols, troubleshooting and error handling, and driving the downstream data handling and data processing pipeline.

Job Description

Join our team as a Laboratory Automation Specialist and help us understand and tackle cancer!

The Laboratory Automation Specialist is responsible for effectively running and coordinating the automation platform together with other automation scientists and lab teams. Your goal is to continuously develop and maintain our existing laboratory automation and high-throughput screening protocols. Additionally, troubleshooting and error handling is daily part of the responsibilities. As the automation specialist, you are also driving the downstream data handling and data processing pipeline development alongside lab scientists to deliver a robust quality control report and to handover results to the data engineering team.

Responsibilities

Laboratory Automation Operations:
Operate, monitor, and maintain automated laboratory instruments. Perform daily startup, calibration, and shutdown procedures on automation systems

Method development and validation: Support in the development and validation of new automation lab protocols

Data handling:
Backup and handle data according to standard practices established for data pipelines

Data pipeline development: Programming and development of data pipelines for quality control and downstream handover to data engineering teams

Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot and support lab scientists during daily operations

Scheduling and resource management: Work together with other automation scientists and lab teams to assess the needs and coordinate resource needs

Training: Train basic operative requirements to lab scientists

Documentation: write SOPs for the validated automation
lab protocols

Key Expectations

Continuously maintain and operate laboratory automation for daily tasks
with our standard protocols

Proactively engage with lab scientists to understand their needs and pain points

Develop new methods and introduce quality of life improvements into existing automation workflows

Bring innovative ideas to the table that allows for increased efficiency, throughput and/or decreases error frequency/improves error handling

Skills

Basic coding literacy and comfort working with scripted workflows

Biology/biochemistry/pharmacology background

Be familiar with software engineering basic principles (documentation, version control)

Experience in performing biochemical / cellular microplate-based assays

Experience in automated liquid handling systems

Nice-to-have:
microscopy knowledge, Databricks/Snowflake experience, programming knowledge of: Python, Visual Basic Script,
C/C++, experience with ELN/LIMS systems

Soft Skills

Excellent planning and resource management skills

Precision and reliability

Open and honest communication

You are a Turbiner if these personality traits apply to you

You have self-awareness and strong intention on personal growth

You seek out feedback and learn from mistakes and apply what you learned

You take responsibility and focus on the outcomes over tasks

You focus on shared success and are open to challenging others respectfully to get the best possible outcome

You are in it for the long haul and have passion for our mission

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