Senior Mechatronics Engineer — Advanced Laboratory Robotics

Be a key member of the Advanced Robotics & Data Orchestration Team, building and sustaining the mechanical, electrical, and control systems that turn instruments and robots into reliable, reusable, push-button workflows for Alexion’s Product Development & Clinical Supply organization. Help transform our multimodality product development labs from manual, time intensive workflows, into an automated, scalable, and scientist-friendly ecosystem by designing and commissioning work cells, integrating devices and sensors, and partnering with Lab Orchestration and Data Engineering experts to improve uptime, safety, and data integrity.  Help us accelerate life-changing therapies to patients with rare and ultra-rare diseases. 

This is what you will do: 

• Design, integrate, and commission robotic work cells and lab automation subsystems (conveyors, gantry/robot arms, end-of-arm tooling, enclosures, and safety systems). 

• Interface instruments and sensors (I/O, controllers, industrial connectivity) and implement verification using vision and sensor fusion where appropriate. 

• Collaborate with Lab Orchestration experts on state models, exception handling, and recovery patterns; validate timing, interlocks, and recipe steps on live systems. 

• Support material-flow mechanics with Lab Orchestration & Material Management experts (kitting, staging, pick and place, chain of custody). 

• Create and maintain electrical and mechanical drawings, requirements specifications, risk assessments, and validation documentation and testing (factory/site, installation/operational). 

• Troubleshoot live issues, drive root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions; improve reliability metrics (mean-time between failures and mean-time to repair, first-pass yield). 

• Partner with scientists and operators on usability and ergonomics; train users and provide day two enablement. 

You will be responsible for: 

• Commissioning work cells that meet safety, reliability, and usability targets. 

• Accurate drawings, documentation, and validation artifacts suitable for audit sensitive environments. 

• Integration quality (signal integrity, interlocks, calibration) and sustained performance against agreed reliability objectives. 

• Continuous improvement of uptime, material flow reliability, error/rerun reduction, and operator experience. 

You will need to have: 

• Education/experience: PhD + 0 years, or MS + 4 years, or BS + 8 years in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or related engineering (or equivalent experience)—including 4+ years integrating robots and instruments with control systems, safety, and sensors in lab or industrial automation. 

• Hands on experience with motion systems, machine guarding, vision/sensing, and creating electrical/mechanical drawings. 

• Strong cross functional collaboration with lab orchestration specialists, software engineers, data engineers, operators, and scientists 

• The duties of this role may require periodic work in a laboratory or manufacturing environment. As is typical of such roles, employees m