Automation Scientist Graduate Intern, RAC Operations

The role

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

What you will do

• Operate and maintain a system of Reconfigurable Automation Carts
• Queue and submit programmatically-generated protocols
• Monitor execution of protocol runs
• Retrieve and analyze protocol run data
• Modify or write new protocols for the autonomous lab
• Prepare and onboard reagents and consumables
• Execute molecular and cell biology scientific workflows
• Take down and offboard used plates from completed workflows
• Perform scientifically rigorous experimental design, execution and data analysis
• Optimize scientific workflows for running on RAC automation

Required qualifications

• Recent graduate (BS/MS) or expected 2026 or H1 2027 graduation date in Computer Science, Bioengineering, Computational Biology, or Bioinformatics
• Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineers with computational skills and a strong interest in learning biology are also welcome

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

• Company stock awards
• Medical, dental & vision coverage
• Health spending accounts
• Voluntary benefits
• Leave of absence policies
• 401(k) program with employer contribution
• 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.