# Senior Automation Engineer

About Clear Labs Clear Labs builds an end-to-end, FDA-cleared next-generation sequencing (NGS) diagnostics platform. Our system, Clear Dx, combines automated sample-to-report workflows with an assay menu spanning oncology and infectious disease testing. We're a hands-on team building hardware, software, and wet-lab science together, and we're looking for senior engineers ready to take full ownership of systems, not just advise from the sidelines. Position Summary We're hiring a Senior Automation Engineer to strengthen the performance, reliability, and validation of the laboratory automation supporting our FDA-cleared NGS diagnostics platform. This is a hands-on, senior role, you'll be at the deck daily, developing methods, troubleshooting hardware, and contributing to formal validation studies alongside our existing automation team. Location: San Carlos, CA Travel: No travel required. Primary Responsibilities Contribute hands-on reliability engineering, method development, and troubleshooting expertise for our Hamilton STAR/STAR2 liquid-handling automation fleet running NGS library preparation workflows. Help design and execute formal automated-vs-manual equivalence and validation

- **Id**: 831977
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clearlabs-senior-automation-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Carlos, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T15:35:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 61
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4351
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Molecular Diagnostics, Genomics & Genetic Testing

## Company

- **Id**: 674253
- **Name**: Clear Labs
- **Domain**: clearlabs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clearlabs>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Salary

- **Min**: 132716
- **Max**: 187364
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 187364

## Technologies

- **Next-Generation Sequencing** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 61

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T16:56:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.624
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 61
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 187364
- **Is top pay**: yes

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