Data Engineer – Redwood City

Job ID: 646407101
Job date: 2018-04-02
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Company : Synthego Corporation 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
Synthego is looking for a Data Engineer to join our core software team to help us extract insights from our data sources by building robust scalable infrastructure to enable easy access. Inside our ever-evolving laboratory, we are developing and bringing in new instruments, innovating new products, and pushing our existing capabilities to the limit. Clear, easy access to our data is critical to our ability to make quick, accurate decisions and to execute Synthego’s philosophy of rapid prototyping and innovation.

What You’ll Do:

  • Build scalable infrastructure for our ever growing and evolving data streams
  • Implement self-serve data visualization and access tools to empower easy data-driven decision making by those outside the data team
  • Write analysis pipelines for sample data from our automated lab (Mass Spec, NGS, Image Analysis)
  • Gather requirements, create specifications, and document appropriately for broader use of the tools you’re creating
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure easy, rapid, and accurate data access by the entire company
About You:
  • BS + 3 years in computer science
  • Fluent in Python and SQL
  • 3yrs+ of creating tools for others
  • Experience with Pandas, Numpy, and Scipy
  • Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative start-up environment
  • Experience with AWS Redshift
  • Experience data visualization tools (Looker, Domo, QuickSight, or similar)
Nice to have:
  • Experience with Data Science
  • Understanding of Biology and/or Chemistry
  • Experience with data from instrumentation design / development
  • Previous experience in the Biotech domain
  • Experience with manufacturing data


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Additional Info:
Synthego is transforming scientists into designers with the first fully automated molecular biology lab. Lab automation is no cakewalk, though. Any given order moves through dozens of instruments, and our factory can manage throughput in the thousands. All of these machines and samples generate a lot of data that we can learn from.

Company Perks & Benefits:

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous equity at an early stage company
  • Robust medical, dental and vision benefits
  • 401k Plan
  • 4x daily Shuttle bus to & from San Francisco (more locations to come)
  • Fully stocked kitchen and snacks
  • Free catered lunches and dinners
  • Onsite Machine Shop
About Synthego:

Synthego’s vision is to turn biology into an information science, with the ultimate goal of dramatically extending the healthy human lifespan.

Synthego builds advanced bioinformatics and automated hardware platforms to create next-generation molecular biology tools, starting with full-stack genome engineering.

These world-class tools accelerate basic scientific discovery, critical disease cures and novel synthetic biology applications to improve and prolong life.

Founded by former SpaceX engineers, Synthego is a leading provider of genome engineering solutions. The company’s flagship product, CRISPRevolution, is a portfolio of synthetic RNA designed for CRISPR genome editing and research.

Synthego’s vision is to bring precision and automation to genome engineering, enabling rapid and cost-effective research with consistent results for every scientist.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Synthego customers include leading institutions in 31 countries around the world, and 9 of the top 10 global biology universities.

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