
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.
We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Research Associate to join our Antibody Developability team. The successful candidate will contribute to the preclinical evaluation of therapeutic antibody candidates by performing in vitro and biophysical assays to assess key developability properties such as stability, aggregation propensity, solubility, viscosity, and expression. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment focused on advancing biologics from discovery to development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform routine procedures associated with the production, preparation, or characterization (e.g., SEC, DLS, DSF, UV/Vis, HIC) of antibodies for internal and customer projects.
- Maintain accurate and detailed electronic laboratory notebooks and experimental records.
- Present outcomes and observations from experiments to ...
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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