Automation Engineer 1, Automation Support Applications

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.

This position is onsite required (3-4 per week) at Ginkgo's Emeryville, CA office, and may follow a 4 / 10 schedule (10AM-8PM, four days per week) with a rotational third shift (8PM-4AM PT) requirement.

Come join Ginkgo Automation, where cutting-edge technology meets scientific expertise. Our platform, built on eight years of internal development, offers advanced hardware solutions called Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs) powered by our subscription-based Catalyst products : Automation Control Software (ACS) and Managed Automation Services. With a deep understanding of the challenges faced by scientists and engineers, our team has created a modular automation platform that aims to revolutionize the way science is done. We are an externally facing team, selling our technology to customers and supporting it at their sites.

The Automation BU is growing with a new mandate of external sales and support. A primary differentiator of our offering is Managed Automation Services (MAS), which involves our SAE team actively monitoring deployed RAC systems and remotely recovering within a short Service Level Agreement (SLA). All members of this team must be highly trained with lab automation instrumentation in addition to being the global experts on our own scheduling and control software and our integration hardware. The members of this team are monitoring all deployed RAC systems and rapidly responding to errors, in addition to working on continuous improvement projects across the RAC tech stack.

As a member of the Automation Support Applications Engineering team, you are at the intersection of technology development, deployment to the customer site and continual support of the deployed technology. Your goal is to understand and translate the needs of the customer and to work alongside Automation Scientists, Software Engineers, and Mechatronics Engineers to turn a scoped integrated automation system into a real, production-ready system. Additionally, your goal is to ensure the customer maintains system uptime and operational throughput. This role requires strong attention to detail, collaborative communication and project management skills to excel.

To learn more about automation engineering at Ginkgo, take a look at our website : Ginkgo Automation

Responsibilities :

• Create and continuously refine deployment playbooks including initial setup and configuration of our automation products, factory acceptance testing (FAT), and site acceptance testing (SAT).
• Actively lead critical portions of system setup, configuration, FAT, SAT, and post-install stabilization - execute test plans, tune hardware / software parameters, and make real-time engineering decisions that ensure each RAC / Tile system meets acceptance criteria and transitions smoothly into routine operation.
• Develop and validate automation scripts / configuration templates that standardize installs and reduce manual effort across the Deployment team.
• Author and own SOPs, troubleshooting guides, and training material to keep documentation compliant and accessible as a single source of truth.
• Execute or guide remote recovery efforts with customers, diagnosing root causes and executing corrective actions for instrument or integration level failures.

Perform and periodically audit the recurring PM program, ensuring tasks, frequencies, and parts lists meet reliability goals; train and certify customer operators and technicians on execution

Minimum Requirements

Preferred Capabilities & Experience

We do not expect that any one candidate will have all of the following capabilities - each is independently a preferred or "nice-to-have" capability.

Total compensation for this role is market driven, with a starting salary of $ 70k+ , as well as company stock awards. Base pay is ultimately determined based 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, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k) program with employer contribution, 8 paid holidays in addition to a full-week winter shutdown and unlimited Paid Time Off policy.

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We also feel that it's important to point out the obvious here - there's a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.

We're developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can - and will - impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it's something we'll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it's critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.

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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