Ginkgo Bioworks is the first YC biotech startup. A young company out of MIT with the mission of making biology easier to engineer, Ginkgo Bioworks designs and builds microbial organisms to address fundamental challenges the world faces today. Ginkgo bioengineers make use of an in-house pipeline of synthetic biology technologies to build new organisms for making natural products, pharmaceuticals, biofuels, and more.

Ginkgo is looking for motivated software engineers to create and improve computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) tools for building and testing new organisms. You will be working closely with our bioengineers, so your tools go from conception to deployment in hours or days. You will be responsible for improving our Ruby/Rails based lab automation platform, writing new algorithms in Python or R for our data analysis platform, or creating easy to use UI in Javascript to help our bioengineers navigate our knowledge base. You don't need previous biology experience; Ginkgo is a great environment for amazing programmers to learn to hack biology.

To learn more, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com. Apply for a position online at www.ginkgobioworks.com/careers/