Xaira Therapeutics
Lab Automation - Robotics Engineer
About this role
Xaira Therapeutics is seeking a Robotics Engineer to build next-generation lab automation systems that integrate robotic arms, mobile platforms, instruments, and AI to accelerate biological experimentation. You'll translate manual lab workflows into reliable automated systems, working across robotics software, perception, motion planning, and multi-station orchestration.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain robotics software for arms, mobile robots, sensors, grippers, and lab devices using ROS2 and modern frameworks
- Design motion planning, manipulation, perception, and safety logic for real laboratory robotic systems
- Integrate laboratory instruments via APIs, IoT interfaces, and custom control software
- Build task execution frameworks using state machines, behavior trees, planners, and error recovery logic
- Benchmark and integrate computer vision for object detection, pose estimation, tracking, and scene understanding
- Collaborate with scientists and engineers to translate biological workflows into automated protocols and debug physical hardware
What they're looking for
- Python, C++, or C# programming
- ROS2, MoveIt, or similar robotics frameworks
- Computer vision and perception (OpenCV, object detection, pose estimation)
- Motion planning and robotic manipulation
- Robotics simulation tools (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Gazebo)
- Hardware debugging and sensor integration
- State machines and behavior trees
- Cloud-based workflows and production software systems
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Xaira Therapeutics
Xaira Therapeutics builds AI-assisted tools and systems to accelerate drug discovery by integrating biological data and developing intelligent agents for therapeutic analysis. The company is hiring Software Engineers and AI Research Engineers to develop backend infrastructure, manage AI model training systems, and create solutions that synthesize biomedical information across diverse datasets.
- Website
- xairatx.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience with ROS2 or other robotics software frameworks—what systems have you built or debugged?
- Walk us through a time you integrated a complex robotic hardware component with software; what challenges did you encounter?