Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks

Senior Mechatronics Engineer

Emeryville, California · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 92 days ago
PythonGitProduct ManagementSolidWorksSystems EngineeringRoboticsMechanical DesignPower ElectronicsControlsMentoring

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About the role

  • The Automation Mechatronics Team is responsible for designing and deploying the mechanical, electrical, and control systems that form the basis for our novel integrated robotic systems.
  • Like all Mechatronics engineers on the team, you will have tasks sourced from a number of different projects on your to-do list.
  • You should expect variety in your day-to-day work, along with an agile environment where priorities shift quickly in response to new projects and updated customer needs.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Design, program, and optimize robot trajectories for industrial six-axis robot arms, ensuring safe, repeatable, and efficient motion in workcell environments
  • Refine and reinforce 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 mutual 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 our PLM system
  • 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
  • Basic software engineering proficiency
  • Minimum robotics experience required:
  • 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)

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.)

Company info

  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • Team Introduction
  • We're looking for talented senior engineers who are excited by the challenges of scaling and improving our Automation Technology.
  • The Automation Team is creating integrated robotic workcells, designing processes around walk-up robotic systems, improving how data is handled, working with scientists on scaling their processes, and much more.
  • Ginkgo is hiring a Senior Mechatronics Engineer to join our in-house automation and integration team.
  • This team is responsible for designing, developing, and deploying automation solutions to both internal labs and external automation customers.
  • Ginkgo's Automation team is building the technology for a scalable, reconfigurable, highly automated industrial factory.

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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