Lab Manager

• Lab Manager
• Location: San Francisco (In-person)

• Who We Are
• Omen is miniaturizing lab-grade spectroscopy into field-deployable embedded
• sensors. Our systems deliver PPM-level trace analysis reports on the fluids in
• industrial machines and datacenters, allowing us to detect complex wear trends
• like hydraulic cylinder failures or coolant contamination in real-time. With this
• data we can automatically match anomalies with failure modes weeks to months
• before catastrophic failure occurs.

• Our team is a tightly knit group of ~20 builders, dropouts, and industry veterans.
• We don’t build things that are good enough, we build things that are 100x better.

The Challenge

• We are currently developing two primary systems:
•  Omen Scout: for closed-loop hydraulic and lubricating oils.
•  Omen Sentry: for direct-to-chip liquid cooling loops (typ. water/glycol
• mixtures).

• To validate our portable hardware and train our predictive machine learning
• models, we need a high volume of ground-truth data. We are in the process of
• building our lab; we need a tech-forward expert to own it and bring professional
• analytical chemistry standards into our fast moving startup environment.

• What You Will Do
•  Establish Lab Standards: Bring the rigor of a professional analytical
• chemistry lab to our R&D facility. Our machine learning and hardware
• teams rely entirely on your results as their ground truth. You must
• implement rigorous QA/QC practices, including running blanks, calibration
• curves, spike recoveries, and monitoring for instrument drift.

•  Integrate: Develop robust sample preparation methodologies for
• challenging fluids (industrial oils and liquid cooling mixtures). You will
• handle the day-to-day processing and testing of these samples while we
• build out the automated pipeline.

•  Automate: Collaborate closely with the R&D team to transition manual
• sample prep and testing into a software-defined automated pipeline. You
• will help define the analytical workflows and test plans that our SCARA
• robots will execute.

•  Supply Chain & Inventory: Manage procurement for all lab consumables,
• reagents, specialty gases, and calibration standards. Assist in
• management/procurement for adjacent equipment like resin 3d printers.

•  Safety & Compliance: Establish and enforce safety protocols. You will
• independently set up our hazardous waste management streams (acid
• waste, solvent waste, oil disposal) and ensure compliance with local
• environmental regulations.

• What We Are Looking For
•  A professional background in chemistry or analytical chem is strongly
• preferred, with bio experience as a plus. We are open to candidates from a
• primarily biology-oriented background provided you have some
• experience with organic and/or physical chemistry.

• Why Omen?
• We take the physics seriously, but we don’t let red tape slow us down. If you want
• to own a fascinating chemistry problem from the ground up and build something
• that protects the most expensive infrastructure on the planet, we want to talk to
• you.