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Nomic

high-throughput proteomics platform employing nELISA

Flow Cytometry Systems Engineer

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's
Montreal, QC, Canada+1 moreMore locations: Boston, MA, USA
In PersonFrequent travel over 50% is required to internal sites and customer locations.
Field ServiceEquipment Field Service

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bachelor's degree or higher in Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, or a related Engineering discipline is required.
  • At least 4 years of post-university industry experience in a technical applications, field applications, field service, field deployment, or life science instrumentation role is required.
  • Recent hands-on experience supporting flow cytometers is required.
  • A strong fundamental understanding of flow cytometry, including instrument setup, fluidics, optics, lasers, detectors, calibration, quality control, controls, compensation, gating, data acquisition, troubleshooting, and assay variability, is required.
  • Experience 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 is required.
  • Experience supporting customer installations, assay transfers, product deployments, instrument qualification, or on-site technical implementations is required.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced startup or scaling technical operations environment is required.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear standard operating procedures, technical guides, training materials, and support documentation, are required.
  • The ability to work cross-functionally with Operations, Research and Development, Product, Quality, Commercial, and customer-facing teams is required.
Responsibilities
  • 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.
  • Establish platform-level knowledge around cytometer fluidics, optics, lasers, detectors, compensation, gating, controls, bead-based assays, and quality-control metrics.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement projects that make cytometry workflows more robust, transferable, and easier to operate.
  • Support the selection, qualification, and operationalization of cytometry platforms and accessories.
  • Serve as the internal expert for commercial flow cytometers used in internal operations, assay development, quality control, and deployment workflows.
  • Support cytometer setup, daily operation, calibration, quality control, maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.
  • Perform maintenance and repair across the cytometer fleet, including replacing parts, servicing fluidics, aligning optics, and performing deeper hardware work.
  • 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 standard operating procedures, training materials, maintenance schedules, quality-control checklists, troubleshooting guides, and vendor escalation playbooks.
  • Work with operations and development teams to improve cytometer uptime, assay robustness, workflow consistency, and operator training.
  • Support deployment customers running Nomic kits on-site with their own commercial cytometers.
  • Assess customer cytometer readiness, including instrument configuration, maintenance status, quality-control 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 commercial, product, customer support, and Research and Development 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.
  • Travel frequently, more than 50%, to support Nomic's internal sites in Montreal and Boston and visit customer sites as needed.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience supporting flow cytometers in a customer-facing or field-facing role is preferred.
  • Comfort supporting technical users and non-expert operators through training, documentation, and hands-on troubleshooting is preferred.

About the company

Nplex Biosciences develops proteomics tools using nanotechnology, including the nELISA platform for high-throughput protein measurement. The platform uses DNA nanotechnology to identify proteins on micron-sized beads, enabling miniaturized, highly parallel immunoassays. It differentiates itself by combining DNA-based protein identification with bead-based assays and a scalable, cost-efficient workflow that lowers the cost of antibody-based proteomics. Its goal is to provide a reliable, scalable proteomics platform that supports drug discovery, biomarker discovery, and personalized medicine.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$60.1M

Headquarters

Montreal, Canada

Founded

2017

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What believers are saying

  • Nomic and Broad Clinical Labs target broader commercialization starting in early 2027.
  • June 2026 Sanger and HESI OASIS collaborations expand high-value dataset generation.
  • September 2024's $42 million Series B lifted total funding above $60 million.

What critics are saying

  • Illumina bought SomaLogic in January 2026, strengthening a much larger proteomics rival.
  • Olink and SomaLogic already own distribution, squeezing Nomic's pricing and sales cycles.
  • If pharma adoption stalls before 2027, Nomic stays a niche services business.

What makes Nomic unique

  • nELISA delivers 99.99% specificity and 0.1 pg/mL sensitivity at 1,000-plus samples daily.
  • Omni 1000 packages 1,000 curated assays with absolute quantification for discovery workflows.
  • Nature Methods publication and Nomic Portal datasets validate scalable protein profiling workflows.

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