Senior AI/ML Engineer 1, Computational Biology - Remote, US

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. 

Ginkgo believes that if we are to grow a thriving, sustainable bioeconomy, we must also grow a new market in biosecurity. Our biosecurity and public health initiative, Ginkgo Biosecurity, launched a nationwide emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing end-to-end pathogen monitoring services to schools, communities, and travelers. As we continue to scale, our work is also evolving into new and exciting directions, from global expansion to the integration of new technologies and capabilities, including our Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance Plan with the CDC.

The convergence of AI and foundation models that can read/write DNA as well as biological design tools is a complex and rapidly changing field. We know that it requires deep technical understanding and diverse perspectives to ensure we maximize the realization of scientific advancements and minimize misuse. Ginkgo Biosecurity is at the forefront of monitoring the world’s biology for potential threats, including those enhanced and enabled by AI. Our team has deployed a global genomic surveillance platform that generates data driven insights to support decision making at the highest levels of public health and national security around the world.

Ginkgo recently announced a large partnership with Google Cloud to build a generative AI platform for engineering biology and for biosecurity. In collaboration with Ginkgo’s Design and AI teams, we are delivering best-in-class foundation and application specific models for design, analysis, and functional prediction and to support biosecurity.

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