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Automation Scientist Intern, RAC Operations

Ginkgo Bioworks · Boston, Massachusetts · On-site

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About Ginkgo Bioworks

Build autonomous labs to accelerate biotech R&D. Program biology like software. Run experiments on our cloud lab or build your own. Trusted by 130+ customers. Backed by SoftBank VF and Felicis.

About the role

Master the RAC Platform: Learn to operate and maintain a system of Reconfigurable Automation Carts, designed to support a variety of molecular and cell biology scientific workflows. You will queue and submit programmatically-generated protocols, monitor execution of your protocol runs, and retrieve and analyze protocol run data. Over time, you will advance to modifying or writing new protocols for our autonomous lab.

What they're looking for

  • "Automation-forward" mindset: you love working with lab automation and making robotic systems run smoother
  • 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
  • Ginkgo has implemented a return to office policy effective October 1, 2025 with required in-office days 5x per week.This policy applies to all employees who live within 50 miles of Ginkgo’s offices in Boston, MA, Emeryville, CA and West Sacramento, CA
  • 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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More about this role

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.

The role is based out of Ginkgo’s Boston, MA location and requires regular in-person attendance.

About the Role : Ginkgo Bioworks is deploying a massive fleet of Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs)—modular, mobile robotic units that snap together like LEGOs to form an autonomous lab. We are looking for an Automation Scientist Intern to be the hands-on force behind this fleet. You will learn how to load, operate, take down, analyze and troubleshoot protocol runs on the most advanced lab automation hardware in the world, pushing our "Nebula" frontier lab towards autonomous operation.

Master the RAC Platform: Learn to operate and maintain a system of Reconfigurable Automation Carts, designed to support a variety of molecular and cell biology scientific workflows. You will queue and submit programmatically-generated protocols, monitor execution of your protocol runs, and...

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