Ginkgo Bioworks Automation Scientist Graduate Intern, RAC Operations 2026 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ginkgo Bioworks is hiring an Automation Scientist Graduate Intern, RAC Operations in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Qualification: B.Sc / BS / M.Sc / MS in Biology, Bioengineering or related fields. The role requires regular in-person attendance.

Job Details

Company: Ginkgo Bioworks

Job Title: Automation Scientist Graduate Intern, RAC Operations

Reference: Greenhouse 5249264007

Location: Boston Drydock, Boston, MA

Experience: Internship (graduate; Freshers eligible)

Qualification: B.Sc / BS / M.Sc / MS Biology / Bioengineering / related

Work Arrangement: Requires regular in-person attendance

Job Description

Ginkgo Bioworks is deploying a massive fleet of Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs), modular, mobile robotic units that snap together like LEGOs to form an autonomous lab. The Automation Scientist Intern will be the hands-on force behind this fleet. The intern will learn how to load, operate, take down, analyze and troubleshoot protocol runs on the most advanced lab automation hardware in the world, pushing the “Nebula” frontier lab towards autonomous operation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Master the RAC Platform: Learn to operate and maintain a system of Reconfigurable Automation Carts, designed to support a variety of molecular and cell biology scientific workflows. Queue and submit programmatically-generated protocols, monitor execution of protocol runs, and retrieve and analyze protocol run data. Over time, advance to modifying or writing new protocols for the autonomous lab.
  • Learn Biology: Prepare and onboard reagents and consumables for upcoming molecular and cell biology scientific workflows, execute such workflows, and take down and offboard used plates from completed workflows. Learn how to do scientifically rigorous experimental design, execution and data analysis, as well as how to optimize scientific workflows for running on RAC automation.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Recent graduate (BS/MS) or expected 2026 or H1 2027 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.

Required Skills

  • “Automation-forward” mindset: a love of 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 the RAC automation system.
  • Bonus (not required): Interest in communications, marketing, social media, and/or short form video.

Salary

The base salary range for this role is $37,700-$53,500. Actual pay within this range will depend on a candidate’s skills, expertise, and experience.

Additional Information

Ginkgo Bioworks also offers company stock awards, a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage, health spending accounts, voluntary benefits, leave of absence policies, 401(k) program with employer contribution, 8 paid holidays in addition to a full-week winter shutdown and unlimited Paid Time Off policy.

Ginkgo has implemented a return to office policy effective October 1, 2025 with required in-office days 5x per week. This policy applies to all employees who live within 50 miles of Ginkgo’s offices in Boston, MA, Emeryville, CA and West Sacramento, CA.

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

About Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks’ 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. Its bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.

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