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title: 'Senior Electrical Power Engineering at ECL'
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# Senior Electrical Power Engineering at ECL

- **Company:** ECL
- **Location:** MT View, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/ecldc/2fdcfc1d-ff23-48b1-b364-87ed168270bb

## Job description

## Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

ECL Inc is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcomed and empowered to do their best work. We hire the best talent for our teams, regardless of race, religion, color, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetic information, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, or veteran status. Our focus is on hiring teammates with humble expertise, kindness, dedication and a willingness to embrace challenges and learn together every day.

ECL Inc does not accept resumes or candidate submissions from external agencies. We appreciate the interest and effort of recruitment firms, but we kindly request that individuals interested in opportunities with ECL apply directly through our official channels. This approach allows us to streamline our hiring processes and maintain a consistent and fair evaluation of all applicants. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

## About ECL

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL) operates the world's leading programmable, remote-controlled life science research laboratory, enabling scientists to design, execute, and analyze wet-lab experiments entirely from the cloud, 24/7/365.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States (with an additional office in South San Francisco, CA)
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Founded by scientists from Emerald Therapeutics (the culture page states, "ECL was founded by scientists, for scientists")

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Biotechnology Research / Cloud Laboratory Infrastructure (Life Sciences)
- **Target customers**: B2B — pharmaceutical R&D, biotech startups, Contract Research Organizations (CROs), academic research labs, diagnostics research, consumer products R&D, and material science teams
- **Mission**: To "build a system that sweeps aside the daily grind scientists face in the laboratory and allows the day-to-day work to center on orchestrating science" — accelerating progress in pharmaceutical research, materials science, medical diagnostics, and agriculture by removing the physical and operational barriers of traditional labs.

## Products & Services
- **ECL® Cloud Laboratory**: A fully software-controlled, highly automated life science research facility equipped with over **200 different instrument models** (HPLC, FPLC, GC, Mass Spectrometers, NMR, PCR, qPCR, ddPCR, ELISA, SPR/BLI, Western Blots, Flow Cytometers/FACS, and more). Operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with on-demand access to instrumentation, samples, and data.
- **ECL Command Center®**: A unified software interface and data analysis platform with **4,500+ functions**, including advanced machine learning, image processing, and multi-dimensional analysis. This single interface controls the entire experimental workflow from cradle to grave.
- **ECL Constellation®**: An automated knowledge base that saves and annotates all experimental methods and data with complete metadata to **ALCOA+ standards**, ensuring data integrity and model-quality outputs. Eliminates the need for separate ELN, LIMS, LES/MES, QMS, and ERP systems by consolidating them into one coherent package.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: **$20M annual revenue**; **$92.1M total funding** across 5 prior funding rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sapphire Ventures (strong talent-flow connection signals an investor/partner relationship)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+17.9% YoY** (+31 people) to **167 employees**
  - Active job postings up **+200% month-over-month** (9 current openings)
  - LinkedIn following grew **+12.3% YoY** to 8,037 followers
  - Talent pulled from top sources: Carnegie Mellon University (14), Amazon (7), Emerald Therapeutics (7), Natera (6), Stanford University (6)
  - Workforce distributed across United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched instrument breadth**: 200+ instrument models under one roof and one software interface — a single destination for nearly any in vitro biology or chemistry experiment.
- **Bridging automation and manual techniques**: ECL uniquely automates "automation-unfriendly" techniques (stock solution generation, solid handling, rotovaping, speedvacing, lyophilization) to the same scriptable, push-button reproducible standard as liquid handlers and robotic workcells.
- **Data integrity built in**: Full ALCOA+ metadata capture and verification ensures every experimental method and dataset is model-quality — a critical requirement for regulated pharma and CMC workflows.
- **Fully consolidated stack**: Replaces ELN, LIMS, LES/MES, QMS, and ERP systems with one integrated platform, reducing tool sprawl for client organizations.
- **Always-on global access**: 24/7/365 on-demand availability removes geographic and temporal constraints, enabling remote science from anywhere on Earth.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening adoption in **Pharmaceutical R&D, Biotech R&D, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK), and Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC)** workflows.
- Supporting **AI-driven laboratory research** by producing standardized, high-integrity datasets suitable for machine learning.
- Expanding enterprise/university partnerships through dedicated facilities built and operated by ECL, alongside flexible academic and subscription account models.

## Why Work Here
- **Employer Rating**: **4.2/5.0** based on 116 reviews — Career: **4.3**, Culture: **4.0**, Compensation: **3.7**, Work-Life: **3.5** ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emerald-cloud-lab))
- **Equity**: Offers company equity as part of total rewards ([builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/emerald-cloud-lab))
- **Mission-driven culture**: Founded by scientists for scientists; a vision centered on giving scientists "unprecedented leverage and autonomy" and sweeping away the daily grind of lab work ([emeraldcloudlab.com](https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/company-culture/our-culture/))
- **High-growth environment**: Year-over-year headcount growth of ~18%, with roles across scientific operations, automation, IT, and engineering
- **Notable open roles**: Automation Engineer, Scientific Operations Engineer I, Sr. Manager of Manufacturing Operations, Laboratory Operator I/II/III, Laboratory Operations Shift Manager, Biomedical Equipment Engineer, IT Operations Engineer, Laboratory Supervisor ([lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ecldc))
- **Remote-friendly philosophy**: The core product is remote lab access, and workforce data shows distributed presence across US, Canada, UK, and China — though lab and operations roles are likely Austin-based
- **Strong alumni network**: Former employees have gone on to Genentech (9), Thermo Fisher Scientific (5), 10x Genomics (5), and Agilent Technologies (4)

## Sources
1. [emeraldcloudlab.com — Home](https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/)
2. [emeraldcloudlab.com — Careers](https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/careers/)
3. [emeraldcloudlab.com — Our Culture](https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/company-culture/our-culture/)
4. [linkedin.com — Emerald Cloud Lab Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emerald-cloud-lab)
5. [builtin.com — Emerald Cloud Lab Careers, Perks + Culture](https://builtin.com/company/emerald-cloud-lab)
6. [lever.co — ECL Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/ecldc)

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