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.
Our Codebase team of Organism Engineers (OEs) is the core of Ginkgo’s strain engineering platform. We believe biology is a unique engineering substrate that comes pre-loaded with startlingly brilliant code we didn’t write. Enabled by our high-throughput foundry, we study and design the most efficient way to create a new organism using the most advanced molecular biology techniques. We also employ various -omics technologies for understanding, troubleshooting, and debottlenecking our designed systems.
We are looking for highly talented and motivated Organism Engineers to join our development processes, including strain design, DNA/strain construction, evaluation of strain performance, and pathway optimization and troubleshooting. The internal title for this position is Organism Engineer 2.
Please note that this position could be at either our Seaport or Cambridge location.
Responsibilities:
- Genetic design and construction of strains to optimize production of chemicals and enzymes
- Using software and leveraging high-throughput robotics to assist in strain construction
- Developing suitable cultivation conditions and assays for screening the performance of your microbes
- Testing the metabolic and physiological performance of your microbes
- Analyzing data to identify limitations and bottlenecks in the performance of your microbes and e-designing strains based on the above
Minimum Requirements:
- BS in microbiology, biochemistry, genetics, chemical or biological engineering with 2+ years relevant experience, or MS with equivalent experience related to microbial metabolism
- Prior experience with metabolic engineering of industrial yeasts, prokaryotes or filamentous fungi
- Prior experience using automated workflows and associated software a plus
- Demonstrated history of limitless enthusiasm for synthetic biology and making biology easier to engineer
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We also feel that it’s important to point out the obvious here – there’s a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.
We’re developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can – and will – impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it’s something we’ll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it’s critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.
It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.
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