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. Today, our foundry is developing over 40 different organisms to make different products across multiple industries.

Ginkgo’s Design Team is a group of computational biologists tasked with making genetic design more predictable and robust. Design consists of three sub-teams that focus on distinct areas: enzymes, genes & pathways, and mammalian computational biology. This role establishes a fourth sub-team, Infrastructure & Modernization (I&M), with the mission of building Design scalably and sustainably via improvements to its technology foundation. Concretely, the I&M Group Lead will set vision and strategy for Design’s compute infrastructure and core software; establish best practices and create infrastructure for scientific computing, software development, data modeling, and data management; and assume technical leadership over Design’s core software stack. In this highly collaborative role, successful candidates would be able to serve as translation layers between computational biologists, software engineers, data scientists, and product managers.

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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 and employment applicants.