Computational Biologist, NGS
Boston, Massachusetts
Ginkgo Bioworks
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.
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. Today, our foundry is actively developing multiple organisms to make different products across multiple industries.
As a Computational Biologist in our NGS group, you’ll support Ginkgo’s organism engineering programs by delivering insights from genomic, transcriptomic, and metagenomic datasets. By forming a collaborative loop with organism engineers, you’ll help design better experiments and reach conclusions faster. By adding your own expertise to an interdisciplinary team of bench scientists, computational biologists, data scientists, and software engineers, your role will be critical to developing world-changing methods for engineering biology.
Please note: we recognize that not all candidates may meet the entire list of Desired Experience and Capabilities. We’re eager to train the right candidates for this role, and encourage those who meet at least two-thirds of the criteria to apply.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with wet lab scientist on experimental design and analysis to develop and optimize new analytic approaches using NGS technologies
- Collaborate with organism engineers to plan projects, write proposals and design impactful experiments.
- Drive successful scientific collaborations across the company by contributing technical expertise. This might include identifying opportunities to onboard new NGS technologies.
- Understands company goals and effectively prioritizes multiple projects to align with them.
- Analyze and interpret sequencing data from multiple NGS technologies to support project success across Ginkgo.
- Interface with software engineers to create and implement NGS data analysis pipelines for production use.
- Develop, run and monitor production code for data analysis
- Mentor junior engineers on the team.
- Maintain high-quality documentation of your work and discoveries, creating written reports, technical presentations for internal or external audiences, electronic lab notebooks, internal database records, code comments, and software documentation.
Desired Experience and Capabilities
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- Master’s with 7+ years or PhD with 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience working with NGS datasets with demonstrated strong skills in computational biology and software development.
- Experience leading and managing cross-functional projects.
- Experience in mammalian systems a plus
- People management and mentorship experience a plus
- Proficiency with at least one software programming language such as R and Python.
- Knowledge of best practices for collaborative software development (version control systems, test-driven development, and good documentation habits).
- Familiarity with cloud services (e.g. AWS) and workflow management systems a plus.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
- Flexibility and willingness to learn in a rapidly changing, growing organization.
- What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)
- Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)
- Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: ‘If we try, we can win’ (CNBC)
- Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe)
- Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
- Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire)
- The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)
- Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)
- Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)
- Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)
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