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Software Engineer III - Driver Developer (Autonomous Lab)

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

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Software Engineer III to join our core engineering team working on Catalyst, our software stack that runs our robotic lab systems. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, development, integration testing, and field support of software drivers for our cutting-edge autonomous labs.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 2–4 years of professional software development experience, with a focus on hardware integration, embedded systems, or driver development
  • Extensive experience with Python
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Familiarity with laboratory automation, robotics, or scientific instrumentation is highly beneficial
  • We do not expect that any one candidate will have all of the following capabilities - each is independently a preferred or “nice-to-have” capability
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.

Team: Automation Systems Team

Hiring Manager: Yangdy Chen and Bradley Spillert

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Software Engineer III to join our core engineering team working on Catalyst, our software stack that runs our robotic lab systems. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, development, integration testing, and field support of software drivers for our cutting-edge autonomous labs.

The ideal candidate possesses a solid background in programming reliable physical or real-time systems. You excel at cross-functional collaboration, ensuring our drivers meet the exacting standards of the scientific community while providing rapid response to customer issues.

To learn more about automation engineering at Ginkgo, take a look at our website .

This job requires occasional travel to Ginkgo's office in Boston, MA and customer sites as needed.

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