Robot Operator
Warp Sciences
Robot Operator
Warp Sciences
AI-driven chemistry CRO for lead optimization
About Warp
At Warp Sciences, our mission is to help the world discover new medicines faster—and build the capacity to do it here in America. We bring AI, robotics, and life sciences together in automated labs that design, run, and learn from experiments, with each experiment making the next one better. We’re not developing drugs of our own. We’re building the infrastructure for the people who do.
About Warp
Warp is building autonomous laboratories that can run scientific experiments end-to-end.
We're starting with chemistry. We're building robotic systems that can manipulate labware, operate scientific instruments, handle materials, and execute experimental workflows with minimal human intervention.
High-quality real-world data is at the core of how our robots learn. We're looking for Robot Operators to help teach our robots how to perform the precise, dexterous tasks that happen every day in a chemistry lab.
You'll work directly with our robots and data-collection systems, performing scientific tasks, collecting demonstrations, evaluating robot behavior, and helping us continuously improve the quality of our data.
What You'll Do
Operate: robotic and teleoperation systems to collect high-quality demonstrations of chemistry and manipulation tasks.
Perform tasks such as handling labware, weighing and transferring solids, manipulating liquids, opening containers, and operating laboratory equipment while maintaining precision and consistency.
Set up and reset robot workspaces, lab equipment, consumables, and experiments between data-collection runs.
Review collected demonstrations, identify failures or poor-quality data, and maintain a high bar for data quality and consistency.
Work closely with our robot learning and hardware teams to identify problems with data-collection interfaces, robot behavior, and task setups and help make the overall system better.
What We're Looking For
Exceptional attention to detail and ability to perform precise tasks consistently.
Ability to quickly learn new procedures, tools, and experimental setups.
Strong hands-on problem-solving skills and comfort working with physical systems.
Patience and consistency when performing repeated tasks while maintaining a high quality bar.
Comfortable working around robots, computers, laboratory equipment, and scientific instruments.
Ability to recognize when something looks wrong and clearly communicate what happened.
High ownership and reliability.
Especially Useful
Experience with any of the following is a plus:
Chemistry, biology, laboratory science, or laboratory operations.
Working in a chemistry or research laboratory.
Robotics, teleoperation, or robot data collection.
Precise hands-on work involving small objects, tools, or instruments.
Following scientific protocols or other detailed technical procedures.
You do not need prior robotics experience. We care most about your ability to learn quickly, work carefully, and consistently produce high-quality data.
What Success Looks Like
The demonstrations you collect become training data for our robot learning systems. That means both quality and quantity matter..
A great Robot Operator doesn't just complete tasks—they notice when an interface makes a task unnecessarily difficult, when a demonstration isn't representative of how a chemist would actually work, or when a robot consistently struggles with a particular interaction.
You'll be one of the people directly teaching our robots how to do science.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Warp is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, reproductive health decision-making, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Warp provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you need an accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact [email protected]
Fair Chance Hiring
Warp considers qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the California Fair Chance Act and other applicable laws.
General Notice
This job posting describes the position generally and does not constitute an offer of employment or an employment contract.
AI-driven chemistry CRO for lead optimization
Warp Sciences is a US-based chemistry contract research organization (CRO) that combines chemists, artificial intelligence, and robotics to create and test molecules for biotech and pharmaceutical companies. It does not own a drug pipeline; customers decide which molecules to pursue and retain control of their drug programs. Its initial service is lead-optimization analog synthesis, where variations of promising molecules are produced and compared by research teams to select drug candidates. Chemists design experiments while the lab becomes increasingly automated; data from experiments trains AI models that help run the lab more efficiently. Customers pay per compound delivered. The company aims to bring discovery chemistry work back to the United States and was founded by Kevin Weil, DJ Patil, Sol Reisberg, and Mano Paluri, with backing from investors like Lightspeed and Mayfield.
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