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    Ginkgo Bioworks
    Posted 11 months ago

    Test Engineer 3, High Throughput & Automation

    Massachusetts, US

    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. 


     

    Testing and analysis of engineered strains, biologics and small molecules are central to both our engineering pipeline and that of our customers, and fully automated, high-throughput approaches - powered by the latest Omics technologies, are especially key to accelerating scientific discovery and innovation. We’re seeking highly skilled analytical chemists to join our Ginkgo Automation Business Unit, where you will help Ginkgo and its customers to improve and scale existing engineering pipelines, applying Ginkgo’s proprietary Reconfigurable Automation Cart (RAC) technology and state-of-the-art innovations in Omics-based testing and analytics. 

    The ideal candidate has led the development of various high-throughput assays, from development, validation, through to successful operation at scale, and practically understands how laboratory automation can ...

    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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