Ginkgo Bioworks
Senior Mechatronics Engineer
Emeryville, California · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 hours ago
PythonGitProduct ManagementSolidWorksSystems EngineeringRoboticsPower ElectronicsControlsMentoring
About the role
- 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.
- Ginkgo Introduction 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of mechatronics infrastructure for automating high-throughput lab processes
- Own end-to-end SolidWorks CAD design for custom mechanical assemblies, including detailed drawings, PDM Vault management, and design reviews
- Design, program, and optimize robot trajectories for industrial six-axis robot arms, ensuring safe, repeatable, and efficient motion in workcell environments
- Define and enforce mechatronics design standards, best practices, and documentation requirements across the team
- Collaborate with biologists on automation equipment design and operation to translate scientific requirements into robust engineering solutions
- Work with vendors to build understanding of needs and capabilities
- lead technical evaluations of new instruments and components
- Drive cross-functional coordination between Hardware, Software, and Systems teams on integration projects
- Manage mechanical BOM accuracy and revision control within Aligni PLM
- Support change management and upgrade/retrofit deployment across our existing fleet of deployed enclosures and hardware configurations, helping balance standardization goals with the practical realities of a diverse installed base
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Advanced proficiency in SolidWorks (2020 or later), including part modeling, assemblies, detailed drawings, and PDM Vault
- Basic software engineering proficiency
- Experience in 3 or more of the following areas:
- Experience with conveyor or transport systems (e.g., MagneMotion or similar)
- Experience with motion control software stacks (e.g., Beckhoff TwinCAT, Siemens, or equivalent)
- Prior experience in life sciences, biotech, or pharmaceutical automation environments
Nice to have
- Laboratory automation systems and experimental workflow development
- Experience with making both 2D and 3D parts
- familiarity with metal and/or plastic fabrication techniques including milling, turning, laser/waterjet/plasma methods
- Basic knowledge of wiring circuits, terminating cables with various connector types, power budgets, etc.
- Fundamentals with PLCs, safety circuits and safety sensors, power electronics, etc.
- Systems engineering mindset with strong attention to detail
- Familiarity with lab automation equipment fundamentals (liquid handlers from Agilent, Hamilton, and Beckman/Labcyte
- plate sealers, bulk dispensers, etc.)
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- In all applications, application source and EEO (equal employment opportunity) data fields along with links (LinkedIn, GitHub) are included in the post for the candidate to populate.
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