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 mechatronics infrastructure for automating various lab processes - Own end-to-end SolidWorks CAD design for custom mechanical assemblies, including detailed drawings, PDM Vault management, and design reviews
What they're looking for
- - BS or MS in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Systems, Robotics Engineering or equivalent, 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- - Advanced proficiency in SolidWorks (2020 or later), including part modeling, assemblies, detailed drawings, and PDM Vault — deep, hands-on mechanical design experience is the most heavily weighted technical requirement for this role
- - Proven experience applying Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) principles to production hardware
- - Basic software engineering proficiency, comfortable reading and writing simple scripts or recipe-language logic (e.g., Python or equivalent) to support automation workflows
- - Trajectory design: can build, simulate, and validate robot paths, including path planning, collision/reach checking, and cycle-time optimization
- - Motion fundamentals: understands joint-space vs. Cartesian motion and can structure approach-contact-retract sequences
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.
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