Autonomous Lab Orchestration Engineer

Ellison Institute is hiring a Software Engineer to build software that orchestrates autonomous laboratory systems. You will join a cross-disciplinary team of software, robotics, and biology researchers, turning agent intent into safe, actionable lab workflows.

You will work on scheduling across instruments, tool interfaces for LLM agents, and guardrails around hardware actions. The role emphasizes correctness, recoverability, and observable behavior in real-time experiments.