Automation Scientist Intern, RAC Operations

The role

You will operate and maintain Reconfigurable Automation Cells to support molecular and cell biology workflows. You will load, operate, troubleshoot, and take down protocol runs on lab automation hardware.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain a system of Reconfigurable Automation Cells
• Queue and submit programmatically-generated protocols
• Remote monitor for errors and conduct remote and on-site error recovery
• Modify or write new protocols for the RAC Automation system
• Prepare and onboard reagents and consumables for scientific workflows
• Execute and monitor molecular and cell biology workflows
• Take down and offboard used plates from completed workflows
• Handle and prepare reagents and consumables
• Safely dispose of used plates

Required qualifications

• Skills in coding, biology or computational biology

Nice to have

• Automation-forward mindset
• Willingness to do whatever it takes to ensure that existing and new scientific workflows run successfully on our RAC automation system
• Interest in communications, marketing, social media, and/or short form video

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision coverage
• Health spending accounts
• Voluntary benefits
• Leave of absence policies
• 8 paid holidays
• Full-week winter shutdown
• Unlimited Paid Time Off policy

About the company

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. Their bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.