About Us
Valo Health is a technology company that is integrating human-centric data and AI-powered technology to accelerate the creation of life-changing drugs for more patients faster. Valo was created with the belief that the drug discovery and development process can and should be faster and less expensive, with a much higher probability of success. We are using models early to fail less often, executing clinical trials to add valuation to the company, and generating fit-for-purpose data to feed back into Valo’s Opal Computational Platform™ as we reinvent drug discovery and development from the ground up.
Disease doesn’t wait, so neither can we.We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts in science, technology, and pharmaceuticals united in our mission to achieve better drugs for patients faster. Valo is committed to hiring diverse talent, prioritizing growth and development, fostering an inclusive environment, and creating opportunities to bring together a group of different experiences, backgrounds, and voices to work together. We achieve the widest-ranging impact when we leverage our broad backgrounds and perspectives to accelerate a new frontier in health. Valo seeks to become the catalyst for the pharmaceutical industry and drive the digital transformation of the industry.
Are you ready to join us?
About the role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Principal Scientist - Automation to join our dynamic research team. The successful candidate will lead the development and implementation of advanced automation technologies to enhance our discovery workflows. This role requires a strong background in lab automation, experience with integrated robotic platforms, and the ability to collaborate across multiple scientific disciplines.
What You'll Do...
- Train users and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to improve workflow efficiency and process optimization.
- Explore and implement new automation technologies in collaboration with internal teams and vendors.
- Strategic vision – ensure alignment of automation activities with the overall company and group level objectives.
- Develop and enhance high-throughput automation workflows across the organization.
- Develop a program to maintain and troubleshoot key lab equipment – to include liquid handlers (e.g. Hamilton, Tecan, Echo, Certus), plate readers (Envision, Pherastar), HPLCs among others.
What You Bring...
- 10+ years experience in automation for biochemistry, chemistry, ADME or a related scientific discipline.
- Extensive background in lab automation and in the design, delivery and operation of integrated robotic platforms.
- Proven expertise with lab equipment that supports preclinical discovery lab activities (e.g. multimodal plate readers and liquid handlers, cell culture processes, UPLC-MS, prep-HPLC etc)
- Demonstrated experience in optimizing workflows and improving process efficiency.
- Excellent collaboration and teamwork skills, with experience working on interdisciplinary projects.
- Ability to train and mentor users on laboratory equipment.
- Eagerness to explore new technologies and work collaboratively with vendors.
- Experience coding workflows for automated scheduling software and liquid handling systems (for examples Cellario/Momentum/Green Button Go/Venus/Evoware)
- Experience in ADME/physicochemical automation and developing scripting/validation protocols is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of HPLC and synthetic chemistry automation is a plus.
More on Valo
Valo Health, LLC (“Valo”) is a technology company built to transform the drug discovery and development process using human-centric data and artificial intelligence-driven computation. As a digitally native company, Valo aims to fully integrate human-centric data across the entire drug development life cycle into a single unified architecture, thereby accelerating the discovery and development of life-changing drugs while simultaneously reducing costs, time, and failure rates. The company’s Opal Computational Platform™ is an integrated set of capabilities designed to transform data into valuable insights that may accelerate discoveries and enable Valo to advance a robust pipeline of programs across cardiovascular metabolic renal, oncology, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Founded by Flagship Pioneering and headquartered in Lexington, MA, Valo also has offices in New York, NY. To learn more, visit www.valohealth.com.
