Flow Cytometry Systems Engineer

Nomic

$75K — $95K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, or related field.
  • 4+ years of experience in a technical applications, field service, or life science instrumentation role.
  • Hands-on experience with flow cytometers in a customer-facing role.
  • Strong understanding of flow cytometry principles and instrumentation.
  • Familiarity with commercial flow cytometry platforms from major life science companies.
  • Effective communicator, able to train both technical and non-expert users.
  • Experience in customer installation and technical support

Responsibilities

  • Serve as Nomic's internal expert for flow cytometers across operations and customer workflows.
  • Support cytometer setup, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
  • Maintain and repair cytometer fleet to ensure optimal performance.
  • Educate internal teams on the impacts of cytometer performance on assay and data quality.
  • Develop best practices, SOPs, and training materials for cytometer use.
  • Assist customers with deploying Nomic kits using their cytometers.
  • Travel >50% to support internal operations and customer sites

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of biotechnology.
  • Engagement with various teams, including R&D and operations.
  • Hands-on experience with complex scientific instruments.
  • Chance to contribute to the development of best practices and documentation.
  • Collaborative work environment supporting both internal and external users.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As our Flow Cytometry Systems Engineer, you will be Nomic's internal subject-matter expert for the commercial flow cytometers used across our operations, development, and customer deployment workflows.

This role is similar to an internal Field Applications Scientist / Field Applications Engineer for flow cytometry. You will support our internal teams in the use, maintenance, troubleshooting, and improvement of cytometers for nELISA readout, while also helping our customers to successfully run Nomic kits on-site using their own instruments.

You will sit at the intersection of operations, R&D, engineering, product, customer deployment, and technical support. Your work will help ensure that our cytometry workflows are robust, reproducible, well-documented, and scalable across both internal and customer environments.

What You'll Be Doing
Flow Cytometry Applications & Instrument Support and Maintenance
  • Serve as Nomic's internal expert for commercial flow cytometers used in internal operations, assay development, QC, and deployment workflows.
  • Support cytometer setup, daily operation, calibration, QC, maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.
  • Be responsible for maintenance and repair across our growing fleet of cytometers, including replacing parts, servicing fluidics, aligning optics, and performing deeper hardware work to improve platform performance and robustness.
  • Help internal teams understand how cytometer performance affects assay quality, data quality, reproducibility, and operational reliability.
  • Diagnose issues across instruments, reagents, samples, acquisition settings, cytometry templates, controls, user technique, and downstream data quality.
  • Develop and maintain best practices for cytometer use, including SOPs, training materials, maintenance schedules, QC checklists, troubleshooting guides, and vendor escalation playbooks.
  • Work with operations and development teams to improve cytometer uptime, assay robustness, workflow consistency, and operator training.
Customer Deployment Support
  • Support deployment customers running Nomic kits on-site with their own commercial cytometers.
  • Help assess customer cytometer readiness, including instrument configuration, maintenance status, QC procedures, acquisition settings, and workflow compatibility.
  • Support customer onboarding, training, protocol transfer, cytometer setup, and troubleshooting for successful kit execution.
  • Provide remote and, when needed, on-site technical support during the lifetime of customer deployments.
  • Partner with our customer-facing commercial, product, customer support, and R&D teams to translate field learnings into improved documentation, training, protocols, and product requirements.
  • Build scalable support processes that allow Nomic kits to run reliably across different customer cytometer environments.
  • Frequently travel (>50%) to support Nomic's internal sites (Montreal, Boston), and visit customer sites as needed.
Cytometry Workflow Improvement
  • Evaluate cytometer-related sources of variability and help implement improvements to reduce failure modes in internal and customer workflows.
  • Work with internal teams and external vendors to resolve recurring instrument or workflow issues.
  • Help establish platform-level knowledge around cytometer fluidics, optics, lasers, detectors, compensation, gating, controls, bead-based assays, and QC metrics.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement projects that make Nomic's cytometry workflows more robust, transferable, and easier to operate.
  • Support the selection, qualification, and operationalization of cytometry platforms and accessories as Nomic scales.


What We're Looking For
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, or a related Engineering discipline.
  • 4+ years of industry experience after university in a technical applications, field applications, field service, field deployment, or life science instrumentation role.
  • Recent hands-on experience supporting flow cytometers, ideally in a customer-facing or field-facing role.
  • Strong fundamental understanding of flow cytometry, including instrument setup, fluidics, optics, lasers, detectors, calibration, QC, controls, compensation, gating, data acquisition, troubleshooting, and assay variability.
  • Experience working with commercial flow cytometry platforms from companies such as Bio-Rad, Cytek, BD, Beckman Coulter, Sony Biotechnology, Thermo Fisher, or similar life science instrumentation companies.
  • Comfortable supporting both technical users and non-expert operators through training, documentation, and hands-on troubleshooting.
  • Experience supporting customer installations, assay transfers, product deployments, instrument qualification, or on-site technical implementations.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced startup or scaling technical operations environment.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear SOPs, technical guides, training materials, and support documentation.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with Operations, R&D, Product, Quality, Commercial, and customer-facing teams.


Join Us If You
  • Want to work at the cutting edge of biotechnology, where high-dimensional flow cytometry underpins the core of a rapidly scaling proteomics platform.
  • Enjoy being the person teams go to when an instrument, workflow, or assay is not behaving as expected.
  • Like working hands-on with complex scientific instruments while also building the documentation, training, and systems that make the teams that interface with it stronger.
  • Are energized by supporting both internal users and external customers.
  • Communicate clearly, troubleshoot systematically, and enjoy translating technical complexity into practical guidance.
  • Want to help build the cytometry expertise, support model, and operational rigor needed to scale Nomic's platform.


À propos du poste

En tant que notre Ingénieur systèmes en cytométrie en flux, vous serez l'expert interne de Nomic en la matière pour les cytomètres en flux commerciaux utilisés dans nos flux de travail liés aux opérations, au développement et aux déploiements clients.

Ce rôle s'apparente à celui d'un scientifique d'applications terrain / ingénieur d'applications terrain interne en cytométrie en flux. Vous soutiendrez nos équipes internes dans l'utilisation, la maintenance, le dépannage et l'amélioration des cytomètres pour la lecture nELISA, tout en aidant également nos clients à exécuter avec succès les kits Nomic sur site au moyen de leurs propres instruments.

Vous serez au carrefour des opérations, de la R-D, de l'ingénierie, du produit, du déploiement client et du soutien technique. Votre travail contribuera à garantir que nos flux de travail de cytométrie sont robustes, reproductibles, bien documentés et évolutifs dans les environnements internes comme chez les clients.

Ce que vous ferez
Applications de cytométrie en flux, soutien et maintenance des instruments
  • Agir comme expert interne de Nomic pour les cytomètres en flux commerciaux utilisés dans les opérations internes, le développement d'essais, le CQ et les flux de travail de déploiement.
  • Soutenir la configuration des cytomètres, leur fonctionnement quotidien, leur étalonnage, le CQ, leur maintenance, le dépannage et le suivi de la performance.
  • Être responsable de la maintenance et de la réparation de notre parc croissant de cytomètres, y compris le remplacement de pièces, l'entretien de la fluidique, l'alignement de l'optique et l'exécution de travaux matériels plus approfondis afin d'améliorer la performance et la robustesse de la plateforme.
  • Aider les équipes internes à comprendre comment la performance des cytomètres influe sur la qualité des essais, la qualité des données, la reproductibilité et la fiabilité opérationnelle.
  • Diagnostiquer les problèmes touchant les instruments, les réactifs, les échantillons, les paramètres d'acquisition, les modèles de cytométrie, les témoins, la technique des utilisateurs et la qualité des données en aval.
  • Élaborer et maintenir les meilleures pratiques d'utilisation des cytomètres, y compris les PON, le matériel de formation, les calendriers de maintenance, les listes de contrôle de CQ, les guides de dépannage et les procédures d'escalade auprès des fournisseurs.
  • Travailler avec les équipes des opérations et de développement pour améliorer le temps de disponibilité des cytomètres, la robustesse des essais, la cohérence des flux de travail et la formation des opérateurs.
Soutien aux déploiements clients
  • Soutenir les clients en déploiement qui exécutent les kits Nomic sur site avec leurs propres cytomètres commerciaux.
  • Aider à évaluer l'état de préparation des cytomètres des clients, y compris la configuration des instruments, l'état de maintenance, les procédures de CQ, les paramètres d'acquisition et la compatibilité des flux de travail.
  • Soutenir l'intégration des clients, la formation, le transfert de protocoles, la configuration des cytomètres et le dépannage pour une exécution réussie des kits.
  • Fournir un soutien technique à distance et, au besoin, sur site pendant toute la durée des déploiements clients.
  • Collaborer avec nos équipes commerciales, produit, de soutien client et de R-D en contact avec les clients afin de traduire les apprentissages du terrain en documentation, formation, protocoles et exigences produit améliorés.
  • Créer des processus de soutien évolutifs qui permettent aux kits Nomic de fonctionner de manière fiable dans différents environnements de cytomètres clients.
  • Voyager fréquemment (>50 %) pour soutenir les sites internes de Nomic (Montréal, Boston) et visiter les sites clients au besoin.
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