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OT (and I'm sorry), but I couldn't resist when I saw this requirement:

> Candidates should hold a PhD or equivalent and have successfully engineered an organism -- plants, fish, microbes, worms, fungi, it doesn't matter, as long as it worked.

Are there that many people who've actually done this? It makes me wish I could apply for this job :)

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That probably means "genetically modified" and not "created."

Yes, I'd hope so too :) There should be quite a few people who've successfully engineered microbes and plants (by extension, fungi), but for the others, I was wondering just how many candidates there could be.

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.

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