Opportunity: 1 year internship for programmers who want to learn to hack biology @ Ginkgo BioWorks--Boston, MA (US)
Teresa Szczepińska
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[BiO Jobs] Opportunity: 1 year internship for programmers who want to
learn to hack biology @ Ginkgo BioWorks--Boston, MA (US)
Submitted by Jason Kelly; posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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BACKGROUND:
Ginkgo BioWorks is a young company out of MIT with the mission of
making biology easier to engineer. We engineer organisms to address
fundamental challenges the world is facing today. We aren't trying to
study biology, we are trying to build it - constructing, editing, and
redesigning the living world. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house
pipeline of synthetic biology technologies to design and build new
organisms.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
You will be working closely with our biological engineers to write the
code that provides the backbone for our synthetic biology pipeline.
Work may include programming to control robotic DNA construction,
automate measurement processes, design genes and genomes, or manage
our process workflow for building organisms. It will depend what's
most important once you start - this is a fast moving field and we're
a young company. You don't need previous biology experience: Ginkgo is
a great environment for amazing programmers to learn to hack biology.
REQUIREMENTS:
Ginkgo's programming languages of choice are Ruby, Python, C, or DNA,
but you must be someone who loves writing elegant code in any
language. Most importantly, you should be passionate about engineering
biology. Applicants must be able to start within 6 months.
LOCALE:
Boston, MA
HOW TO APPLY:
Please visit: https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/83
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