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Edinburgh Genome Foundry | Senior Software Engineer - Synthetic Biology and Automation | Edinburgh, UK | ONSITE | Full-time We are looking for a computational software engineer or computational biologist to join one of the largest automated platforms for synthetic biology globally. The Foundry is a unique facility at the University of Edinburgh specialized in large-scale genetic engineering projects for academic and industrial research. We are automating the assembly of genetic constructs up to chromosome size, with an ambition to deliver custom DNA seven days a week with minimal human intervention from order to shipping. You will help us develop the services that orchestrate our platform, making it smarter, faster and more reliable. This is a great opportunity to contribute to exciting research projects (e.g. in gene and cell therapy, metabolic engineering) while developing expertise in Laboratory Information Management Systems, software architecture for automation, computer-aided DNA design and manufacturing, and web development. Your work will be mainly open-source and have visibility in the Synthetic Biology and Laboratory Automation communities, enabling biological projects at an unprecedented scale! Duration: Until Nov. 2020 in the first instance. Full job description and application: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec... EGF website: https://genomefoundry.org EGF Software Projects: https://edinburgh-genome-foundry.github.io