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  • Commercial Operations & Marketing Intern

    Boston, Massachusetts

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Commercial Operations & Marketing Intern Boston, Massachusetts 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. Commercial Operations & Marketing Intern, Ginkgo Reagents Massachusetts, United States 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. For the past 15 years, Ginkgo Bioworks has delivered bioengineering solutions for partners across biopharma and life sciences using optimized, high-throughput R&D processes. Ginkgo Reagents leverages this experience to develop, manufacture, and supply high-quality products-including cell-free protein synthesis, PichiaWorks protein expression, and proteins and enzymes-directly to customers in formats that are purpose-built for high-throughput, automated workflows. We design reagents that are reproducible, stable, and compatible with plate-based automation, reducing the time scientists spend on reagent prep so they can focus on designing and interpreting experiments. For our customers-from academic labs to pharma and AI-driven discovery companies-this translates into improvements in speed, throughput, scalability, and cost. Job Description: As the Commercial Operations & Marketing Intern on the Reagents team, you will play a critical role in the day-to-day success of Ginkgo's Reagents business. You won't just be watching-you

  • Director, Government Partnership Development

    Remote, US

    remote $170K-$274K

    Director, Government Partnership Development Remote, US 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. Ginkgo Bioworks is a publicly-traded biotech company that is redesigning the living world to solve some of the globe's most-pressing challenges in health, materials, energy, sustainability, food, and more. Our mission to “make biology easier to engineer” is poised to disrupt multiple industries by leveraging our innovative automation, data, and scale capabilities in biological engineering. Our bioengineers make use of Ginkgo's in-house autonomous lab for designing and building new organisms. We're seeking an experienced, passionate, and collaborative Director, Government Partnership Development to join our Government team. As Ginkgo continues to grow, we are building out our team to work collaboratively with the U.S. Government and its labs to accelerate American innovation and support the development of state-of-the art therapeutics, diagnostics, medical countermeasures, a generation of new transformative AI/ML-training datasets and AI-enabled research workflows, and new capabilities for reshoring of pharmaceutical supply chains. Ginkgo Automation's mission is to provide holistic scientific automation solutions that accelerate the pace of scientific discovery. Our approach integrates hardware and software to create seamless, automated workflows for laboratories. This role will drive the sales and adoption of (1) Ginkgo's proprietary lab automation products and services, including our Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs) and

  • Senior Engineer III, Small Molecules – High Throughput Screening & Technology

    Boston, Massachusetts

    unspecified $160K-$180K

    Senior Engineer III, Small Molecules – High Throughput Screening & Technology Boston, Massachusetts 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. Senior Engineer III, Small Molecules - High Throughput Screening & Technology Location: Boston, MA Team: Datapoints - Small Molecule Developability & Functional Genomics Reporting to: Vice President, Small Molecules Role Overview We are hiring a Senior Engineer III, Small Molecules for a key technical leadership role owning Datapoints' high‑throughput small‑molecule and functional genomics screening capabilities. This person is a player-coach and the technical heart of the screening and automation workflows that enable ADME, Drug‑Seq, imaging/viability assays, and related workcell operations across Datapoints. You will design and run complex, automation‑enabled experiments, harden them into reliable platform workflows, and lead a small group of scientists/engineers (directly and indirectly) to deliver multiple programs in parallel. You will also balance scientific thought leadership (connecting the "why" to the "how/when") with an intense focus on operational excellence. Key Responsibilities - End‑to‑end ownership of screening workflows - Own HTS and Drug‑Seq‑linked workflows (workcell and walk‑up), including design, execution, QC, and data handoff. - Translate program objectives into executable workplans with realistic timelines and risk trade‑offs. - Assay & workflow development - Develop, optimize, and qualify phenotypic and viability assays (e.g., imaging + CTG, Drug‑Seq primary/secondary).

  • Senior Software Engineer - Driver Developer (Autonomous Lab)

    Boston, Massachusetts

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Senior Software Engineer - Driver Developer (Autonomous Lab) Boston, Massachusetts 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. About the Role: We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our core engineering team to work on Catalyst, our software stack that runs our robotic lab systems. This is a critical, high-impact role responsible for the design, development, full integration testing, and field support of software drivers for our cutting-edge autonomous labs. The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in programming reliable physical real-time systems in production environments. They must also excel at cross-functional collaboration, ensuring our drivers meet the exacting standards of the scientific community and providing rapid response to critical customer issues. To learn more about automation engineering at Ginkgo, take a look at our website . Responsibilities: Driver Development & Implementation (70%) - Design, implement, and maintain robust, high-performance software drivers using Python and/or C#/.NET for a diverse range of lab automation hardware (e.g., robotic arms, liquid handlers, plate readers). - Deeply understand and implement various low-level hardware communication protocols, including RS-232, USB, and TCP/IP. - Develop drivers with a focus on reliability. - Contribute to the design of the device abstraction layer to create intuitive and robust interfaces for high-level application developers.

  • Commercial MBA Intern

    Massachusetts, United States

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Commercial MBA Intern Massachusetts, United States 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. Job Description: The Enterprise Sales team is an integral part of a cross-functional team within Ginkgo to help RAC Automation. As a Commercial Intern, on the Automation - Commercial team, you will play an integral role in accelerating the growth of Ginkgo's automation sales with pharma and biotech companies. You will be mentored by members of the Commercial team and gain excellent exposure to various aspects of the BD transaction cycle including ideation of new opportunities, leading customer outreach, customer pitches, customer proposals, and deal closing. In addition, you will have the opportunity to lead and support the launch of new strategic initiatives that enable the Automation - Commercial team to operate more effectively. Possible projects to include: - Identifying potential customer segment The Ginkgo Bioworks Early Talent program is open to students who will return to their degree programs upon completion of their employment at Ginkgo. Candidates must be enrolled in a United States based institution and/or have work authorization in the United States to be eligible to participate. Responsibilities: - Conduct industry deep dives including mapping of sub-sectors across various therapeutic modalities (e.g., small molecules, biologics, cell and gene therapy, etc.) and business models

  • Automation Engineer 2, Automation Support Applications

    Boston, Massachusetts

    unspecified $86K-$120K

    Automation Engineer 2, Automation Support Applications Boston, Massachusetts 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. Job Title: Automation Engineer 2, Support Applications Engineering The Automation BU is growing with a new mandate of external sales and support. A primary differentiator of our offering is Managed Automation Services (MAS), which involves our SAE team actively monitoring deployed RAC systems and remotely recovering within a short Service Level Agreement (SLA). All members of this team must be highly trained with lab automation instrumentation in addition to being the global experts on our own scheduling and control software and our integration hardware. The members of this team are monitoring all deployed RAC systems and rapidly responding to errors, in addition to working on continuous improvement projects across the RAC tech stack. As a member of the Automation Support Applications Engineering team, you are at the intersection of technology development, deployment to the customer site and continual support of the deployed technology. Your goal is to understand and translate the needs of the customer and to work alongside Automation Scientists, Software Engineers, and Mechatronics Engineers to turn a scoped integrated automation system into a real, production-ready system. Additionally, your goal is to ensure the customer maintains system uptime and operational throughput. This role

  • Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

    Boston, Massachusetts

    unspecified $134K-$190K

    Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Boston, Massachusetts 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. This role strongly prefers candidates located in the Boston area with the ability to regularly commute to our Seaport headquarters. Due to the nature of this role, candidates should expect to support U.S. Government customers. Candidates must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance per business requirements. In connection therewith, candidates must be willing to undergo a background investigation and meet eligibility requirements. Clearance sponsorship will be available. Candidates who currently hold an active or recently inactive U.S. Government security clearance are encouraged to apply. Ginkgo Biosecurity is building next-generation biosecurity infrastructure to help governments and partners detect, attribute, and deter biological threats. Our mission extends across public health, national security, and global defense, ensuring nations can rapidly identify dangerous pathogens, understand where threats originate, and respond with confidence. We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join the Biosecurity engineering team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in cross-disciplinary environments and is excited to build production software that directly supports biosecurity, epidemiology, and biological data workflows. We are looking for an engineer who is not only a technical expert but also a forward-thinker who embraces AI-augmented development

  • Senior Engineer III, ADME

    Boston, Massachusetts

    unspecified Salary not disclosed

    Senior Engineer III, ADME Boston, Massachusetts 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. Senior Engineer III, ADME Boston, Massachusetts 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. Here at Ginkgo, we are aiming to modernize ADME by bringing our experience in high-throughput screening to the in vitro small molecule drug pipeline. We are re-imagining ADME at scale, and we are seeking a visionary and technically adept High-Throughput ADME Scientist to help us build and execute this next-generation platform. This role is critical in accelerating our drug discovery pipeline by providing timely and high-quality in vitro ADME (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion) data to guide lead optimization. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in developing, validating, and implementing a variety of high-throughput ADME assays. Key Responsibilities Assay Development & Implementation - Design, develop, optimize, and validate a wide array of high-throughput in vitro ADME assays (e.g., solubility, MDCK permeability, plasma protein binding, microsomal stability, hepatocyte stability, and CYP inhibition/induction). - Automation and Screening: Experience working with automated liquid

  • Software Intern, Autonomous Lab

    Emeryville, California

    unspecified $38K-$54K

    Software Intern, Autonomous Lab Emeryville, California 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. About the Role: Ginkgo Bioworks is constructing the world's first "Total Autonomous Lab"-a facility where scientific work is requested by code and executed by robots, 24/7. We are looking for a Software Intern to help build the digital brain of this lab. You will work with Catalyst , our proprietary software stack that orchestrates fleets of Reconfigurable Automation Cells (RACs). This role is ideal for software engineers who want to apply their skills to physical systems or computational biologists who want to move beyond analysis into autonomous execution. Responsibilities: - Enable "Protocols as Code": Develop and refine Python-based protocols using the Catalyst Client to control liquid handlers, plate readers, and robotic arms. - Build the AI Scientist: Assist in the development of Catalyst Agent , our LLM-based interface that allows scientists to launch experiments using natural language. - Integrate Lab Data: Work on data pipelines that automatically harvest, structure, and upload experimental data from RACs into our data lake for AI model training. - Develop Device Drivers: Help integrate new hardware instruments into the Catalyst ecosystem, writing the drivers that allow our software to "talk" to new lab tools. Preferred Qualifications: - No college degree necessary

  • Software Graduate Intern, Autonomous Lab

    Emeryville, California

    unspecified $45K-$64K

    Software Graduate Intern, Autonomous Lab Emeryville, California 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. About the Role: Ginkgo Bioworks is constructing the world's first "Total Autonomous Lab"-a facility where scientific work is requested by code and executed by robots, 24/7. We are looking for a Software Intern to help build the digital brain of this lab. You will work with Catalyst , our proprietary software stack that orchestrates fleets of Reconfigurable Automation Cells (RACs). This role is ideal for software engineers who want to apply their skills to physical systems or computational biologists who want to move beyond analysis into autonomous execution. Responsibilities: - Enable "Protocols as Code": Develop and refine Python-based protocols using the Catalyst Client to control liquid handlers, plate readers, and robotic arms. - Build the AI Scientist: Assist in the development of Catalyst Agent , our LLM-based interface that allows scientists to launch experiments using natural language. - Integrate Lab Data: Work on data pipelines that automatically harvest, structure, and upload experimental data from RACs into our data lake for AI model training. - Develop Device Drivers: Help integrate new hardware instruments into the Catalyst ecosystem, writing the drivers that allow our software to "talk" to new lab tools. Preferred Qualifications: - Recent graduate (BS/MS)

  • Automation Scientist Intern, RAC Operations

    Boston, Massachusetts

    unspecified $38K-$54K

    Automation Scientist Intern, RAC Operations Boston, Massachusetts 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. The role is based out of Ginkgo's Boston, MA location and requires regular in-person attendance. About the Role: Ginkgo Bioworks is deploying a massive fleet of Reconfigurable Automation Cells (RACs) -modular, mobile robotic units that snap together like LEGOs to form an autonomous lab. We are looking for an Automation Scientist Intern to be the hands-on force behind this fleet. You will learn how to load, operate, take down, and troubleshoot protocol runs on the most advanced lab automation hardware in the world, pushing our "Nebula" frontier lab towards autonomous operation. Responsibilities: - Master the RAC Platform: Learn to operate and maintain a system of Reconfigurable Automation Cells, designed to support a variety of molecular and cell biology scientific workflows. You will queue and submit programmatically-generated protocols, remote monitor for errors and conduct remote and on-site error recovery, with the support of our Apex Support team. Over time, you will advance to modifying or writing new protocols for our RAC Automation system. - Learn Biology: You will prepare and onboard reagents and consumables for upcoming molecular and cell biology scientific workflows, execute and monitor such workflows, and take down and offboard used plates from completed

  • Senior Scientist, Antibody Production & Characterization

    Massachusetts, United States

    unspecified $100K-$100K

    Senior Scientist, Antibody Production & Characterization Massachusetts, United States 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. Position Summary We are seeking a Lead Scientist to drive the evolution of Ginkgo's automated antibody production and developability platforms. This role is pivotal in bridging complex antibody engineering, specifically bi- and multi-specific formats, with Ginkgo's RAC (Reconfigurable Automation Cart) systems. The ideal candidate is a technical expert in antibody transfection, purification, and characterization who thrives on translating manual workflows into robust, automated pipelines. Key Responsibilities - Lead method development and execution of antibody production and characterization on Ginkgo's autonomous robotic labs using the RAC (reconfigurable automation cell) systems. - Optimize high-throughput transfection and purification protocols for complex modalities, including bi-specifics and multi-specifics, at various scales (96 wp, 24 wp, 6 wp), ensuring high purity and correct assembly. - Execute and automate standard developability suites (thermal stability, aggregation, polyreactivity, etc), binding assay (BLI, SPR) and functional assays (cell-based) to support rapid "Design-Build-Test" cycles. - Serve as the project lead for customer projects focused on antibody production and developability characterization. - Mentor junior scientists and contribute to scientific strategy and innovation. - Author technical reports, SOPs, and present findings to internal leadership and external customers Required Qualifications - Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Molecular