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Systems Test Engineer - Contract

Medra· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Systems Test Engineer to monitor and maintain robot uptime at Medra Lab 001, perform on-site diagnostics, and support engineering releases and site-specific improvements in a contract, on-site role.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain robot uptime and reliability across daily protocol runs, ensuring the system performs at peak efficiency
  • Diagnose and resolve operational issues onsite using SOPs, playbooks, and your own intuition for the system
  • Escalate complex issues to the engineering team with clear, structured incident reports including relevant metadata
  • Monitor system health proactively using dashboards and alerting tools to catch issues before they cause production failures
  • Perform routine calibration checks and preventive maintenance on the robot, peripherals, and consumables
  • Document all incidents, resolutions, and observations to build a reliable knowledge base of site-specific issues and drive data-driven improvements over time
  • Support remote and on-site engineering visits by assisting with hardware upgrades, validating software deployments, and performing test runs after changes
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with customer scientists to coordinate run schedules and communicate system status

Qualifications

  • Background in robotics, automation, or mechatronics
  • Comfort around automation equipment — able to follow SOPs, troubleshoot basic hardware/software issues, and know when to escalate
  • Strong written communication — filing incident reports and coordinating with software and hardware engineers daily
  • Dependable, detail-oriented approach with a bias toward documenting observations and proactively flagging potential issues
  • Willingness to be on-call or adjust schedule to support critical customer runs when needed
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Medra

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Scientists automate protocols with Medra’s autonomous robotic system.

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