Automation Engineer
Company: Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Location: Boston
Posted on: January 26, 2023
Job Description:
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is
constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to
answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food,
materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house
automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.We're
looking for talented engineers who are excited by the challenges of
scaling and improving our foundry. Because it touches nearly every
part of the foundry, the Automation Team is integral to Ginkgo's
vision for the future. The Automation Team is creating integrated
robotic workcells, designing processes around walk-up robotic
systems, improving how data is handled, working with scientists on
scaling their processes, and much more. All the work we do is in
service of increasing Ginkgo's capacity in terms of the number of
strains engineered and the diversity of species and products we can
handle. It's an enormous challenge and we need people who are eager
to get started. You'll be working hand in hand with biologists,
software developers, and other engineers to co-develop the wetware,
hardware, and software infrastructure that underpin the foundry.To
learn more about automation engineering at Ginkgo, take a look at
this blog post: .#LI-DW1Responsibilities
- Developing automated experimental workflows for genetic
engineering processes, strain cultivation, sample preparation, and
multi-omics analysis
- Develop and code review software to drive operation of
laboratory instruments and robotics including using best practices
for developing and maintaining the codebase
- Writing software for data acquisition, retrieval, and
processing
- Collaborating with biologists on automation equipment
operation
- Designing and building integrated automation infrastructure,
including work cells for executing high-throughput processes, as
well as flexible distributed automation tooling
- Training automation users on workflows and best practices
- Supporting and maintaining automation hardware
- Validating and QC'ing automated protocolsDesired Experience and
Capabilities
- BS or MS in engineering or equivalent
- Experience with Automated Liquid Handlers
- Experience in software development with an interest in
laboratory automation
- Experience with "design of experiment" (DoE)
- Experience with laboratory automation systems and experimental
workflow development
- Made use of at least one major programming language, e.g.
Python, C#, C/C++, or Java (Scala is a plus, familiarity with
multiple is a plus), including using best practices for developing
and maintaining the codebase
- Practical knowledge of high-throughput biological
processes
- Experience in hardware development, integration, and testingTo
learn more about Ginkgo, visitor check out some curated press
below:We also feel that it's important to point out the obvious
here - there's a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and
that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo
is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of
its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our
culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work
with people from all walks of life.We're developing a powerful
biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the
many ways our technology can - and will - impact people around the
world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse
team to build it gives us the best chance that it's something we'll
be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it's critical that
we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play
a role in the future of biology.It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks
to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and
employment applicants.
Keywords: Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., Boston , Automation Engineer, Engineering , Boston, Massachusetts
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