$45,100 – $63,600/yr

Automation Scientist Graduate Intern, RAC Operations

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Quick Summary

Key Responsibilities

Master the RAC Platform: Learn to operate and maintain a system of Reconfigurable Automation Cells, designed to support a variety of molecular and cell biology scientific workflows.

Requirements Summary

Recent graduate (BS/MS) or expected 2026 graduation date in Computer Science, Bioengineering, Computational Biology, or Bioinformatics. Chemical,

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OtherOperations AssociateAutomation Scientist Graduate Rac Operations

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.

The role is based out of Ginkgo’s Boston, MA location and requires regular in-person attendance.

About the Role

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Master the RAC Platform: Learn to operate and maintain a system of Reconfigurable Automation Cells, designed to support a variety of molecular and cell biology scientific workflows. You will queue and submit programmatically-generated protocols, remote monitor for errors and conduct remote and on-site error recovery, with the support of our Apex Support team. Over time, you will advance to modifying or writing new protocols for our RAC Automation system.
Learn Biology: You will prepare and onboard reagents and consumables for upcoming molecular and cell biology scientific workflows, execute and monitor such workflows, and take down and offboard used plates from completed workflows. In the process, you will learn how to do scientifically rigorous experimental design and execution as well as how to optimize scientific workflows for running on RAC automation.

Requirements

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Recent graduate (BS/MS) or expected 2026 graduation date in Computer Science, Bioengineering, Computational Biology, or Bioinformatics. Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineers with computational skills and a strong interest in learning biology are also welcome.
"Automation-forward" mindset: you love working with lab automation and making robotic systems run smoother.
Willingness to do whatever it takes to ensure that existing and new scientific workflows run successfully on our RAC automation system.

Nice to Have

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Interest in communications, marketing, social media, and/or short form video

The base salary range for this role is $45,100-$63,600. Actual pay within this range will depend on a candidate's skills, expertise, and experience. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental & vision coverage, health spending accounts, voluntary benefits, leave of absence policies, 8 paid holidays in addition to a full-week winter shutdown and unlimited Paid Time Off policy.

*It is expected that all Internships are onsite five days a week.

It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.

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