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About the Role
You will build the systems that automate Capable’s drug-development workflows, from peptide synthesis and fluid handling to laboratory instrumentation and sample tracking. Working directly with chemists, biologists, and other engineers, you will turn manual processes into reliable automated systems and take hardware from concept through prototype, testing, and iteration. This is a hands-on role: you will build, integrate, troubleshoot, and improve the equipment our scientists use every day.
Responsibilities
- Design and build electromechanical and fluidic systems for automated synthesis, liquid handling, and laboratory workflows.
- Select and integrate pumps, valves, tubing, reactors, sensors, heaters, motors, and controllers.
- Develop controls for sequencing, flow, pressure, temperature, mixing, sensing, and fault detection and recovery.
- Connect instruments, analytical systems, sample tracking, and quality-control workflows into reliable automated processes.
- Build and debug prototypes, identify the causes of failures, and turn test results into practical improvements.
- Work with scientists to improve throughput and reproducibility while maintaining purity, yield, and sample quality.
- Write clear test procedures, define acceptance criteria, and document system performance and operation.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building, integrating, testing, or maintaining automation systems, laboratory instruments, robotics, fluidic devices, or other electromechanical hardware.
- Practical strength in some combination of mechanical systems, electronics, fluidics, sensing, controls, or instrument integration.
- A systematic approach to troubleshooting problems that span hardware, controls, and process conditions.
- The ability to take ownership of a subsystem, communicate engineering tradeoffs, and work closely with scientists and other engineers.
- A background in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or bioengineering—or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Curiosity and willingness to learn across disciplines.
Skills
- mechanical systems
- electronics
- fluidics
- sensing
- controls
- instrument integration
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Early-stage environment experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or bioengineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.
Salary/Compensations
- Compensation will depend on the skills, experience, and scope of impact you bring.
Benefits
- Generous equity options
- $500+ monthly wellness budget
- 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision coverage
- HSA, FSA, and 401K plans
- Healthy dinners provided daily
- Visa sponsorship
About the Company
- We are a vibrant and intensely mission-driven team in San Francisco, comprising members from MIT, Harvard Medical School, Roche, ETH, and Dana-Farber.
- We value speed and rigor, coupled with excitement, drive, and a strong work ethic.
- In an early-stage environment, we value people who can bring clarity to open-ended problems, take ownership of the next steps, and follow through with energy.
- Capable Labs is a place for ambitious, high-integrity people who want to become dramatically better.
- You will be surrounded by people who care intensely about the work, get close feedback from the people making scientific and company-defining decisions, and have room to own increasingly important problems.
- We believe excellent work should be met with meaningful reward, ownership, and trust.
- Responsibility is earned through contribution, not title alone: anyone who demonstrates the judgment, rigor, and follow-through to move important work forward can earn meaningful scope.
Equal Opportunity
- Capable is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Capable is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.