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 Equipment Services team within the Lab Operations department at Ginkgo is responsible for reactive and proactive support across Ginkgo’s equipment fleet. In spec, operational equipment is critical to ensuring effective execution of experiments required to deliver on Ginkgo’s programs, and the Equipment Services team is directly responsible for ensuring maximum uptime of our foundry equipment.

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot, perform scheduled maintenance, installations, and validation of advanced  laboratory equipment following SOPs and manuals without technical oversight.
• Oversee technical work of less experienced engineers and technicians.
• Identify and lead strategic initiatives aimed at reducing cost and improving instrument uptime.
• Lead the development of new runbooks utilized by less experienced staff to resolve issues that arise during ...