Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Lab (Scheduling & Optimization)

What this role involves

Ginkgo Bioworks is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Autonomous Lab software organization, specifically the Orchestrator team. The role involves designing and implementing scheduling algorithms for robotic lab automation cells, optimizing resource allocation, and collaborating across teams. Candidates need strong Python skills and expertise in operations research and optimization techniques.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• operations research
• optimization
• constraint programming
• milp
• heuristics
• metaheuristics
• scheduling

Requirements

• Level: senior
• Remote policy: onsite
• Visa sponsorship: no

From the employer’s posting

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 found…