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    Ginkgo Bioworks
    Posted about 2 years ago

    Sr. Ops Engineer 1, RNA and Biologics Analytics

    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 Analytics team comprises talented analytical and bioanalytical chemists dedicated to providing efficient and precise analytical characterization methods spanning various applications. Situated at the junction of high throughput screening, fermentation, and downstream processing, our team plays a pivotal role in characterizing engineered strains, target biomolecules, and processes crucial to Ginkgo's mission of making biology easier to engineer. Leveraging cutting-edge software, automation, and analytical instrumentation, we develop methods of low, medium, and high throughput to cater to diverse application needs.

    An essential technology driving our Mammalian RNA projects is the capability to generate circular RNA that fulfills crucial quality criteria necessary for large-scale functional studies. Historically, achieving this has posed significant ...

    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)

    JL

    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.

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    MissionTo make biology easier to engineer.

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    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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