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    Ginkgo Bioworks
    Posted 11 months ago

    Automation Engineer 2, Automation Support Applications

    $85,600 per year
    Emeryville, California

    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. 


     

    Come join Ginkgo Automation, where cutting-edge technology meets scientific expertise. Our platform, built on eight years of internal development, offers advanced hardware solutions called Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs) powered by our subscription-based Catalyst products: Automation Control Software (ACS) and Flow (Managed Automation Services). With a deep understanding of the challenges faced by scientists and engineers, our team has created a modular automation platform that aims to revolutionize the way science is done. We are an externally facing team, selling our technology to customers and supporting it at their sites.

    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 ...

    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

    Pickle is not affiliated with listed companies unless otherwise noted.

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