HTS Scientist
Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc.
<div class="content-intro"><p>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.&nbsp;</p> <hr> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><div id="f1927e83b82c452a8162d2ff71400bfb" class="WATF" data-automation-id="decorationWrapper"> <div class="WASI WCRI WBSI"> <div id="f1927e83b82c452a8162d2ff71400bfb-c5c29ae3db4498e2" data-automation-widget="richTextArea" data-automation-metadata-id="56$309310" data-uxi-form-item-child-list-index="2"> <div class="css-v47zm2-FocusContainer e1ge5hpl0"> <div class="css-1mb50em-EditorContainer e1ge5hpl1" data-automation-id="richTextEditor" data-metadata-id="56$309310" data-uxi-widget-editable="false"> <div class="css-1v6ili8-TextEditorContainer eg1t6ed0" data-automation-id="richTextContent"> <div class="css-ehfww1"> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">About Ginkgo Datapoints: Ginkgo Datapoints, a newly established business unit within Ginkgo Bioworks, is poised to usher in the coming era of AI-backed biotechnology breakthroughs. By leveraging Ginkgo's state-of-the-art automation and digital infrastructure, Datapoints aims to address the growing demand for high-quality, large-scale biological datasets essential for training AI models in drug discovery and development. Unlock AI to unlock biology.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Position Overview:<br></strong>We are seeking a Scientist to join our High Throughput Screening (HTS) wet-lab team at Ginkgo Datapoints. This role is ideal for someone passionate about lab automation, assay development, high-throughput screening, and process optimization, eager to onboard assays onto workcells and increase throughput.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">Execute primary screens and downstream plate reader assays on automated systems with minimal supervision.</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">Perform rigorous quality control of screening results, monitoring assay robustness (e.g., Z’ and CVs) to ensure all data is accurately posted to electronic notebooks and uploaded to databases.</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">Test, maintain, and troubleshoot robotic platforms and liquid handlers, including the Echo, Hamilton, and Lynx, to ensure peak performance and minimal downtime.</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">Maintain impeccable lab records while supporting routine laboratory maintenance and safe lab practices.</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">Partner with science teams to develop, optimize, and adapt biochemical and cell-based assays into 384- and 1536-well formats.</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s1"><strong>Collaborate with bench scientists to transition manual assays onto fully automated screening systems and robotic workcells.</strong></span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s1"><strong>Proactively identify and implement process improvements to increase throughput and drive overall screening efficiency.<