Principal Robotic Automation Engineer

High Res is seeking a Principal Automation Engineer to join our Automation Engineering team at our headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts. Reporting to the Associate Director of Lab Automation Engineering, you will set the technical standard for how we deploy and integrate our systems across a growing engineering organization and become a leading voice on both.

• Define how the department deploys: the standards, integration patterns, and acceptance criteria that govern commissioning across the product line
• Architect the technical approach for multi-system deployments, including integrations with LIMS, ELN, and third-party software platforms
• Establish integration patterns for cross-system workflow orchestration and order-level sample tracking
• Lead the integration of new High Res products and third-party devices into the department's deployment processes and standards
• Define how new and uncommon products are operated, integrated, and tested, and evaluate new hardware and software platforms for deployment readiness, identifying gaps and building the processes and documentation to close them
• Partner with Product, Applications, Software, and System Design Engineering to define new product introduction requirements from the automation engineering perspective
• Serve as the final technical escalation point for multi-system and integration issues that exceed senior and lead engineer capacity, owning outcomes from diagnosis through resolution and documentation
• Identify patterns across escalations, deployment failures, and quality gaps, and design systemic responses that prevent recurrence
• Own on-site execution selectively, where a deployment's technical risk warrants direct Principal involvement

• Drive technical training programs, standards documentation, and lessons learned processes that raise the technical floor of the entire department
• Develop and maintain internal technical resources that give engineers the tools to handle increasingly complex systems independently
• Serve as a mentor and technical resource to engineers at every level of the department
• Partner with Applications, Software Engineering, Customer Support, and Professional Services on complex integrations and system-level technical decisions
• Represent the automation engineering perspective in cross-functional design reviews, product planning sessions, and escalation forums
• Communicate technical risks, requirements, and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders clearly and with appropriate context

This role calls for someone who has built expertise across the full breadth of laboratory automation, has led complex technical work independently, and is ready to operate as the highest technical authority on the individual contributor track. Your success will be built on the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field) and 8+ years of relevant experience; or Master's degree and 7+ years; or Associate's degree and 10+ years
• Extensive hands-on experience configuring, integrating, troubleshooting, and deploying laboratory automation systems in customer-facing settings
• Experience with laboratory automation scheduling software such as Cellario Scheduler, Green Button Go (Biosero), Momentum (Thermo Fisher), Overlord (PAA), or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience architecting or defining deployment standards, integration patterns, or test methodology that an engineering organization adopted
• Proficiency in C# or another object-oriented…