
Senior Project Engineer
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.
The Senior Project Engineer reports to the Director of Facilities Operations and will be responsible for providing technical engineering support and leadership for the Facilities Operations team, including engineers and technicians. You will be responsible for leading the effort with assistance from various Ginkgo functional teams and Infrastructure Operations to deliver laboratory and office infrastructure for our expanding science platform that aligns with Ginkgo’s short/long-term strategic real estate plan for Ginkgo’s worldwide real estate portfolio.
You will have direct responsibility for compiling time and cost estimates related to layout design, including equipment, materials and labor. This role will monitor the construction process and review submittals for projects. The Senior Project Engineer will plan, implement, ...
The Real Dill ☘️
Startups are private companies, but once they IPO they become "public"...meaning the average person has more access to their financials. In the case of Ginkgo Bioworks, it hasn't generated as much revenue as anticipated, but still has a ton of money in the bank to work on different projects (see the news article on ChatGPT for DNA). It'll be important to monitor its performance over the coming months and years to see how the company evolves considering its previous financial performances, but its definitely working on some really cool initiatives that have implications across healthcare, pharma, food, and more. (November 2023)
Jon Lee, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, MBA
Pickle co-founder
About Ginkgo Bioworks
Design, develop, and optimize biological products across industries, including vaccines, meat substitutes, and circular fashion.
MissionTo make biology easier to engineer.
Wow FactorWorking on initiatives across society: food, drug development, scientific research, and more.
Company benefits
- ⛷️ Unlimited PTO
- 🐣 Maternity/paternity leave
- 🏦 401K/retirement
- ✈️ Travel stipends
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