Culture Robotics | Generalist Engineer | South San Francisco | Onsite
Culture Robotics is developing automated fermentation systems to help biotech and pharmaceutical researchers increase their experimental throughput and reproducibility. Our team is made up of mechanical, software, and biomedical engineers who worked previously at Google and MIT. The system we're building executes high-throughput, automated experiments and provides new tools for data analysis and visualization. Currently, we are building our first robotic system for internal testing and validation. We will then begin operating with customers at the end of the year.
We are looking for curious and motivated people who want to build tools that enable high-throughput, reproducible life science research. Our projects offer many challenges and this role in particular will present unique opportunities for learning about automation platforms and biological systems.
Our ideal candidate is an engineering generalist with experience in both hardware and software development. This is a full-time position with competitive salary, medical coverage, paid vacation, access to a state-of-the art machine shop, free lunch and other benefits.
To learn more and apply, send me an email: matt@culturerobotics.com
Bay Area, CA.
contract, >40hrs per week
title: HW Test Engineer, Contract
We are a stealthy group designing and building some advanced robotics, and we need more help testing our system and its subsystems. This is a great entry level position -- a chance to work among many smart folks and learn about some interesting technical systems.
Apologies for the vagueness, but if this is vaguely interesting, send me some info about yourself and we can talk in more detail! You can reach me at matt.ball.2@gmail.com
There are wire and pipe bending machines that do this on a larger (and probably smaller) scale.
They are however expensive and I doubt their tool chain is open source
Redwood Systems builds an extremely energy-efficient lighting system and a high-density sensor network for commercial spaces, data centers and schools. We're looking to hire a generalist web engineer that will work closely with some big customers to build out new and interesting ways to interact with our system and its data. Some things you might be working on:
- spatially-connected visualizations of our internal sensor data (temp, occupancy, ambient light, and more)
- learning algorithms that adjust lighting policies to save the most energy without disturbing occupants (very Nest-like)
- building an application to create lighting patterns that direct occupants to a safe exit within a building
As always, we're looking for people who get things done, are interested in new technologies and care about our customers. Get in touch with me, Matt, via mball .at. redwoodsys.com And see more of our openings here http://redwoodsystems.com/about-us/careers#job-7 (the one mentioned above is "Application Engineer").
This is really, really cool. Thanks for making this.
I really dig the Flask project (love the website and the docs, and everybody who uses it raves about it) and I hope to play with it more in the future, but I don't think I'd recommend it to somebody who is a first timer, largely because of one issue: Data. Flask leaves you to sort it out on your own, which is great if you're capable of that, but Django holds your hand, which is more appropriate for a beginner.
I'm pretty sure he means that there's no database support built in, ie. you need to go download something like SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, Storm, etc. If you're already going to do that anyway it's not so much of an issue, but for people who are just getting their feet wet, it's yet another obstacle to overcome.
And it makes sense -- I think Flask is a much easier introduction to config and the VC of MVC development... but once you get to the M, well... SQLAlchemy is great, but the learning curve is steeper. And even though Flask has a well-documented extension for that, it's still another package and a separate piece of documentation.
As a first-timer, I really appreciated having Flask around. It might not have a database layer, but it did have really excellent documentation. I felt like I had a much firmer understanding of what was happening with Flask than I did with Django.
Nice. It does seem like one of the lighter-weight Python web frameworks might fit in better with the overall theme of this intro, and Flask is a great choice.
I thought about doing the same thing as I read through it.
One of the carriers here just started picking them up, haven't seen them as much in Rwanda here as I have in Kenya, but they are still new.
The Ideos comes with a SIM toolkit, it's just the official 'Nexus' phones (and some others) that seem to lack it. So that part is fine, which is a good thing, because I buy electricity for my house using it weekly.
Can't wait to use this! Looks like it will be immensely helpful to see how time efficient my projects are. I guess I can tag projects by name with a special character and then search for the tags later.. I noticed in the video that only the elapsed time of a task is shown -- is there also a way to see when tasks were started and finished?
Thanks _mattb--I appreciate it. The default view shows elapsed time as you saw. When you search for items, it gives you a transactional view with start/stop times. I'm thinking about adding a setting for how you want the default view, e.g. transactional vs. summary. I've been using this app for a long time (since 2007). I spent the last couple of months cleaning it up for public consumption. It really has helped me keep track of my projects. The most enlightening thing is how much time I spend on phone calls with certain clients. Now I try to monitor that a little bit more.
Fremont, CA - Engineers of all sorts, Interns and Full-Time
Redwood Systems is building a web-enabled platform for powering and controlling LED lights in commercial spaces and datacenters. Our system collects a large amount of very granular sensor data and we use this information to save energy and increase our clients' productivity. Our engineers work with big-name customers to deliver solutions and shape the direction of our product. It's an awesome time to be working here!
We're about 50 people now and are hiring engineers for backend development, sales support, application development, manufacturing, and power systems development. See our full list of openings here: http://redwoodsystems.com/about-us/careers Interns are being hired in many of the same fields. Feel free to get in touch with me directly -- mball -at- redwoodsys.com
Fremont, CA - Engineers of all sorts, Interns and Full-Time
Redwood Systems is building a web-enabled platform for powering and controlling LED lights in commercial spaces and datacenters. Our system collects a large amount of very granular sensor data and we use this information to save energy and increase our clients' productivity. Our engineers work closely with big-name clients to deliver solutions and shape the direction of our product. It's an awesome time to be working here.
We're about 50 people now and are hiring engineers for backend development, sales support, application development, manufacturing, and power systems development. See our full list of openings here: http://redwoodsystems.com/about-us/careers Interns are being hired in many of the same fields. Feel free to get in touch with me directly -- mball -at- redwoodsys.com
Culture Robotics is developing automated fermentation systems to help biotech and pharmaceutical researchers increase their experimental throughput and reproducibility. Our team is made up of mechanical, software, and biomedical engineers who worked previously at Google and MIT. The system we're building executes high-throughput, automated experiments and provides new tools for data analysis and visualization. Currently, we are building our first robotic system for internal testing and validation. We will then begin operating with customers at the end of the year.
We are looking for curious and motivated people who want to build tools that enable high-throughput, reproducible life science research. Our projects offer many challenges and this role in particular will present unique opportunities for learning about automation platforms and biological systems.
Our ideal candidate is an engineering generalist with experience in both hardware and software development. This is a full-time position with competitive salary, medical coverage, paid vacation, access to a state-of-the art machine shop, free lunch and other benefits.
To learn more and apply, send me an email: matt@culturerobotics.com