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Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012) on Sunday April 01, 2012 @12:14PM (#3784059)
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology.

Ginkgo BioWorks is a well-funded MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms that make the world better. Stop building web apps and work on something that matters: http://ginkgobioworks.com/careers.html

apply here: https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/83

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (February 2012) on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @09:48AM (#3538124)
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology.

Ginkgo BioWorks is a well-funded MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms that make the world better. Stop building soulless web apps and work on something that matters: http://ginkgobioworks.com/careers.html

apply here: https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/83

Re:Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (February 2012) on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @08:44AM (#3537866)
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology. Ginkgo BioWorks is a well-funded MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms that make the world better. Stop building soulless web apps and work on something that matters: http://ginkgobioworks.com/careers.html

apply here: https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/83

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011) on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @10:35AM (#3182195)
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology

Ginkgo BioWorks is an MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms to solve challenges across a range of industries from renewable fuels to pharmaceutical production. Stop building soulless web apps and work on something that matters:

http://ginkgobioworks.com/careers.html https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/83

Re:Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful? on Sunday August 14, 2011 @04:27PM (#2884368)
About time this topic came up on HN. The reason this matters is that lots of really smart, driven engineers are being taught that the way to be successful is to make a buck on a quick flip of a consumer web app -- rather than making an impact on the world. Places like Ycombinator that have the most cachet should be leading the charge on reversing this trend.
I'm not sure the "possibilities are endless". At best they are lowering transaction costs between ppl selling food and ppl buying food. Feels like there are bigger problems out there.
Do people really think working on problems like this is impactful? Guessing the guys running this are pretty smart engineers, bums me out that they are making "solving the office lunch problem" their big hack.
Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011) on Monday August 01, 2011 @11:26AM (#2832590)
For our programmer slots you don't need prior experience engineering organisms. Ginkgo is a good place for solid engineers to learn to hack biology. The majority of the team came from non-biology backgrounds initially.
Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011) on Monday August 01, 2011 @09:31AM (#2832006)
Boston, MA - Ginkgo BioWorks is a synthetic biology startup out of MIT that is offering programming internships to develop CAD tools and software to support our platform for genetic engineering of organisms for use in fuels, medicine, and foods. If you want to work on something other than photo-sharing, this might be for you: http://ginkgobioworks.com/careers.html https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/84 keywords: INTERN, DNA hacker, biotech
Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011) on Sunday May 01, 2011 @08:22PM (#2504494)
Actually, most of the team came from other engineering backgrounds. Ginkgo is a great place for engineers to learn to hack biology.
Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011) on Sunday May 01, 2011 @02:31PM (#2503654)
Boston, MA - Ginkgo BioWorks is a synthetic biology startup out of MIT that is offering programming internships to develop CAD tools and software to support our platform for genetic engineering of organisms:

http://ginkgobioworks.com/careers.html https://ginkgo.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/84

keywords: INTERN, DNA hacker, biotech