Senior Manufacturing Engineer

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. </p> <hr> <p> </p></div><h3><strong>Ginkgo Introduction</strong></h3> <p>Ginkgo is a high-growth, well-capitalized public biotech company headquartered in Boston that is redesigning the living world to solve some of the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. 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 mission to "make biology easier to engineer" is poised to disrupt multiple industries by leveraging our innovative data, automation, and scale in biological engineering.</p> <p><strong>Team Introduction</strong></p> <p>We're looking for an experienced manufacturing leader who is excited by the challenges of scaling production of our Automation Technology. The Automation Team creates integrated robotic workcells, designs processes around walk-up robotic systems, improves how data is handled, works with scientists on scaling their processes, and much more.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p>Ginkgo is hiring a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our in-house automation and integration team in Emeryville. This team is responsible for designing, developing, and deploying automation solutions to both internal labs and external automation customers. Ginkgo's Automation team is building the technology for scalable, reconfigurable, highly automated, high-throughput R&D labs — and this role will be central to ensuring we can reliably produce those systems at scale.</p> <p><strong>Job Description</strong></p> <p>As Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will own the end-to-end production process for Ginkgo's Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs) and other automation hardware products. You will be the on-the-floor leader responsible for driving quality, throughput, and continuous improvement across our Emeryville production operations, working closely with the Mechatronics engineering team, technicians, and supply chain partners.</p> <p>You will lead a team of Engineering Technicians, set standards for assembly and test, and serve as the primary owner of our manufacturing process documentation. You will be expected to identify and eliminate production bottlenecks, champion quality control best practices, and ensure our output meets the reliability bar required for customer-facing deployments.</p> <p>You should expect variety in your day-to-day work along with an agile environment where priorities shift quickly in response to new projects and updated customer needs. We're open to learning new tools or methodologies to get the job done more efficiently, and we hope that you will bring new ideas and perspectives to the team!</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Production Ownership: Oversee and continuously improve the full production lifecycle for RACs and automation hardware products, from sub-assembly through final integration, test, and shipment preparation.</li> <li>Team Leadership: Directly lead and mentor a team of Engineering Technicians; assign work, conduct performance feedback, and support career development for direct reports.</li> <li>Process Development & Enforcement: Author, maintain, and enforce Manufacturing Process Instructions (MPIs), Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs),

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