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Mechatronics Engineer I

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

-Lead the design, development, and deployment of projects that support Ginkgo’s autonomous lab product - Own end-to-end SolidWorks CAD design for custom mechatronic assemblies, including detailed drawings and PDM Vault management Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • BS or MS in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Systems, Robotics Engineering or equivalent
  • Experience designing a complex custom mechatronic system, including mechanical and electronic component specification and selection, custom part design, and assembly
  • Experience using a 3D CAD tool such as Solidworks, Autodesk Inventor, or OnShape for from-scratch modeling of parts and assemblies
  • Experience reading and producing 2D manufacturing drawings
  • Experience with basic electronics debugging and system troubleshooting techniques
  • Experience with data collection and analysis techniques
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.

Ginkgo is a high-growth, well-capitalized public biotech company headquartered in Boston that is redesigning the living world to solve some of the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. 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 mission to "make biology easier to engineer" is poised to disrupt multiple industries by leveraging our innovative data, automation, and scale in biological engineering.

We're looking for motivated, curious, and detail-oriented engineers who are excited by the challenges of scaling and improving our Autonomous Lab Technology. The Automation Team is developing an industry-leading autonomous lab, integrating robotics, lab equipment, and industrial manufacturing processes into a novel modular...

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