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Twist Bioscience
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Twist Bioscience | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | www.twistbioscience.com
Precision Machine-Vision-Controlled Laboratory-Robotics for DNA Synthesis
Programmable DNA, the software of Life, is finally here! Twist Bioscience is developing a disruptive Synthetic DNA technology that will change the world, enabling widespread health and sustainability. Synthetic biologists will use our products to engineer how organisms produce cures to diseases, everyday chemicals are made using the atmosphere as the carbon source, plants make their own fertilizers, in-vivo diagnostics will alert us when we are sick, and many more applications.
Hiring software engineers to write laboratory automation control software for DNA synthesis. Work primarily in C#/.NET. Get experience with precision robotic equipment, state-of-the-art machine-vision, and custom firmware/FPGA/electronics. Work on a diverse set of problems from UI design to interfacing with bioinformatics databases to writing robot drivers to writing sophisticated data-analysis algorithms. Be part of a team creating an automated DNA synthesis factory!
Other Keywords: Biotech, hardware, WPF, C++, mechanical, electrical, physics, chemistry, control systems, Git, Python
Software Engineer - Robotics
https://www.twistbioscience.com/careers/?gh_jid=205184
Apply on website or you can contact me (an engineer) directly: nhowells at [company domain]