Hiring: Production Automation Specialist Company: Dash Bio Location: Waltham, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:44:42 About the job Experience: •This is a critical position at Dash Bio. You will have a direct hand in shaping the scalability of our core technology, ensuring our clients receive world-class liquid handling quality, and helping to build an industrialized lab reimagining what’s possible with revolutionized drug development cycle. Required Skills: •Oversee and improve the high execution quality of the daily production workflows, ensuring client samples are processed efficiently and meet Dash's exceptional liquid handling quality standards. •Assist lab technicians in real-time to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software bottlenecks as they arise on our automated systems. •Proactively identify performance bottlenecks or workflow limitations on the floor. Suggest and implement data-driven process improvements to achieve a more industrialized, high-throughput, and reliable production lab. •Partner with and mentor junior team members, ensuring thorough training on standard operating procedures and the platform's built-in safety features (such as barcode mask verification against expected tip types). •Act as a central floor liaison collaborating with scientists, software engineers, and hardware teams to ensure instrument capabilities continuously align with production throughput demands. •Deep, hands-on technical proficiency with common liquid handling platforms (specifically Hamilton STAR/Vantage instrumentation), alongside Agilent/BioTek devices (i.e.EL406 washer, Synergy NEO) and Thermo Fisher peripherals (i.e. KingfisherFlex and others). •Strong familiarity with common laboratory applications and assay preparation, including but not limited to Ligand binding assays (ELISA/MSD), genomics (NGS/qPCR/ddPCR), and LCMS. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Bioengineering, Biotechnology, Biology, or a related field with 5+ years of hands-on industry experience combined with proven experience managing, configuring, or troubleshooting lab automation in a fast-paced production or clinical setting. Compensation: •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!