Ginkgo Bioworks
Software Engineer 2, Autonomous Lab
Boston, Massachusetts · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- We are seeking talented Software Engineers to join the Autonomous Lab software organization at Ginkgo Bioworks.
- Catalyst encompasses everything from hardware driver interfaces and orchestration to data APIs and AI-enabled agentic workflows.
- Candidates who apply to this posting will be considered for all open Software Engineer positions across the Automation Software organization.
Responsibilities
- Scope and deliver well-defined features and components end-to-end with minimal guidance.
- Participate constructively in technical design discussions and code reviews.
- Work effectively with scientists, operators, and cross-functional partners to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
- Ask good questions, document decisions, and communicate progress clearly with the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Some professional software development experience, including work on team-owned codebases in a production setting, such as internships, academic research, or full time employment.
- Ability to reason about code across multiple files and components
- familiarity with version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows.
- Familiarity with laboratory automation, robotics, or scientific instrumentation.
- Familiarity with scheduling, optimization, or operations research concepts.
- Experience with hardware communication protocols or low-level systems programming.
- Experience with specialized device software libraries such as HL8, Terapagos, and Stratum v2.
- Familiarity with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and writing or modifying queries.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Python
- familiarity with additional languages relevant to your area of interest (e.g. TypeScript & React) is a plus.
- Preferred Capabilities and Experience
- Each is independently a preferred or "nice-to-have" capability.
Compensation
- 85,600 USD - 120,200 USD Annual - Actual pay within this range will depend on a candidate's skills, expertise, and experience.
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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of H-1B visas at this time.
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