ABOUT US:
Volta Labs is building a suite of genomics applications for our first-of-its-kind digital fluidics sample prep automation platform. Our technology will remove the need for laborious sample setup, provide a technology-agnostic suite, and shorten sample processing time from hours to seconds. We believe our tech is the next step in unlocking the hospital of the future and will accelerate medical research by decades.
THE TEAM:
You'll join a team of innovative thinkers who love to experiment, collaborate, and win together. We are passionate about pushing the boundaries of automation, biology, computing, robotics, design, and user experience to benefit our customers and the world.
Our team is growing naturally and looking to add a Software Engineer with strong frontend skills to support our commercial launch. This is a unique engineering environment that combines software, firmware, robotics, biology, and chemistry into one product, with you working cross functionally between all groups. This is the perfect role for an engineer with some production experience behind them, ready to join a startup as the rocketship is taking off.
Day to Day Year 1
- Our team splits their time on average 30% in meetings like standups, strategy sessions, and brainstorms, and 70% hands-on work, be it designing, coding, testing and debugging, or code reviews.
- Developing software anywhere in the device stack and beyond in languages including C, C++, Rust, Python, React and Javascript
- Author Python code to run on the instrument and control its functionality
- Develop manufacturing test functionalityDocumenting software design, implementation, and testing procedures to ensure clarity, maintenance, and scalability
- Partnering with our hardware engineers, scientists, and product managers to ensure Callisto’s software is as robust and effective as possible
- Design, develop, and maintain features for customer-facing products and internal tools
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software errors, taking ownership of the resolution processDeploy software updates to fleets of instruments and monitor them to provide a stable instrument platform for end users
- Participate in code reviews, follow company coding standards, and write unit tests
- Contribute to the overall success of the team by proactively identifying opportunities for process improvement and innovation
- Facilitate hardware bringup and failure analysis. Regularly getting your hands dirty on unrefined hardware
Within 3 months you’ll…have completed onboarding, be ramped into our code base and fully understand our product and opportunity. Training wheels will be off, and you’ll be working independently but in a collaborative environment.
By 6 months you’ll…have shipped your first code set (or more) for new controls , be developing opinions and insights to surface to the senior team, and be actively learning and sharing your knowledge with your team.
At 12+ months you’ll…be supporting hiring, growing your technical acumen, moving cross functionally through the org, and owning software projects from design to deployment.
Your Experience
- Hands on design, development, and launch to production experience of electromechanical device software
- Ability to build a highly technical product for a low-tech audience; A startup mindset - the ability to connect dots quickly, iterate on the fly, and have courage to take calculated risks
- Prior in-production collaboration with (or direct experience alongside) hardware engineers - this role is a close collaborator, and awareness of hardware constraints and general knowledge is a day-1 must have.
- You are comfortable with digging in on hardware and can read schematics
- Nice to Have: A keen interest in learning about molecular biology and genomics will bring our values together!
This is a full-time position that requires a significant amount of in-person work and collaboration onsite at our Seaport Office in Boston, MA. If you are unable to relocate or commute to the Boston MA area, this role won't be a match.
Our Benefits and Perks:
Robust Equity Program, to build future wealth through stock options with high growth potential
Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage, including Medical, Dental, & Vision
HSA with monthly company contribution, & FSA
Sponsored Commuter Benefit Plans
Access to Our 401K Plan, to save for your future
12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Paid Time Off, because we understand the importance of time off for rest and adventure
11 Paid Holidays
Twice Weekly Company Lunches, office snacks, beverages, & treats
Monthly Team Happy Hoursand regular team outings!
We are an equal opportunity employer and foster diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, and we actively seek out and value diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself positively contributing, please apply. Help us build an inclusive community that will change the face of bio-automation!
