(Senior) Scientist: Lab Automation & High-Throughput

Job opportunity

Are you excited by combining automation, data, and biology to accelerate biotech innovation? As a (Senior) Scientist in Lab Automation & High-Throughput, you’ll design and deploy high‑throughput, automated experimental workflows that drive strain development and bioprocess innovation. Join a science‑led environment where your ideas directly shape future biotech platforms.

Your key responsibilities

• Translate project and business needs into robust automated experimental workflows, including data tracking & data analysis approaches.
• Using data-driven approaches, design and optimize predictive high-throughput screening and automated strain engineering workflows.
• Plan and execute experimental work, analyse and document data, and communicate results through meetings as well as written reports, contributing to scientific excellence and continuous team growth.
• Contribute to mid- and long-term strategy development for lab automation capabilities and their effective implementation across diverse projects.
• Work closely with R&D managers, key scientists in strain engineering, analytics, fermentation, down-stream processing, bioinformatics, and data science, as part of multidisciplinary project teams.

We offer

• A unique opportunity to shape how lab automation and digitalization impact biotech innovation for years to come.
• Access to state‑of‑the‑art laboratory and data automation technologies.
• A science‑led, innovative environment that encourages creativity and thinking beyond conventional boundaries.
• A collaborative, international workplace with flexibility and a hybrid working model.
• A culture that supports learning, knowledge sharing, and continuous professional growth.

You bring

• A PhD with 5 years of relevant experience in high-throughput screening and downscaling, computational approaches to bioprocess optimization, automated strain engineering, or synthetic biology.
• Ability to address biological questions with quantitative, data-driven and high-throughput approaches. Hands-on experience with design of experiments, biostatistics and bioinformatic and expertise with programming languages (like Python or R) to analyse data is a plus.
• Experience with lab automation technologies, particularly liquid handlers, and solution providers (Tecan, Hamilton, HighRes Biosolutions, Labcyte, Molecular Devices, etc.).
• Familiarity with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Laboratory Execution Systems (LES), and data integration pipelines is a plus.
• Strong written and presentation skills, the ability to work effectively in international teams, and a strong ability to integrate digital solutions into biotech workflows.

About dsm-firmenich

Join our global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose: to bring progress to life.

And while you’re making a difference, we’ll make sure you’re growing too. With learning that never stops, a culture that lifts you up and the freedom to move across businesses, teams, and borders. Your voice matters here. And your ideas? They’re essential to our future.