You are viewing a preview of this job. Log in or register to view more details about this job.

Software Engineering Intern

Do you want to develop software that helps program biology? Join the Software Team Summer 2022 Internship program at Ginkgo Bioworks and become a part of the next great technological revolution - constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. This is your chance to not only develop algorithms and frameworks at the cutting edge of software technologies, but also work side-by-side with the brightest scientists, organism engineers, and more. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to the exciting frontiers of synthetic biology, including DNA design, genome sequencing, and automating experiments at scales previously unheard of. 

At Ginkgo, our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms. Today, our foundry is developing over 40 different organisms to make different products across multiple industries. We're looking for motivated Software Engineering Interns who will design, develop, and deploy the software used by Ginkgo scientists to create these new organisms, conduct experiments, control lab robots, and analyze massive amounts of data. You'll collaborate with a team of talented and diverse engineers, product managers, experts in data analysis and bioinformatics, and, of course, your customers – the dozens of biologists and chemists at Ginkgo.

Our tech stack includes AWS, Docker, Django, REST, GraphQL, React, MySQL, Postgres, Elastic Search, Airflow, and other modern tools and frameworks. Our languages of choice are Python and Javascript, but you must be someone who loves writing elegant code in any language. Most importantly, you should be passionate about making biology the next engineering discipline. The 20th century was all about bits and the awesome technology of computers; the 21st century is all about atoms and the awesome technology of biology. Ginkgo is at the forefront of this revolution. Here's your chance to change the world (rather than selling more ads). 

Please note: This program is a paid internship which will take place during Summer 2022. Candidates who are able to be onsite at our Boston office locations 3 days per week (or more) are preferred.



Project Examples

  • Designing and implementing tools and workflows for genetic design of genes, metabolic pathways, and genome modifications
  • Programming robots to assemble DNA, modify genomes, culture cells, and prepare assay samples
  • Developing verification tools for strain construction
  • Developing data analysis tools and workflows for processing and analyzing next generation sequencing (NGS) and mass spec data