Twist Bioscience
Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026Twist Bioscience is a synthetic biology company headquartered in South San Francisco, California that manufactures synthetic DNA on a silicon-based platform. Founded in 2013 and listed on Nasdaq, it sells genes, oligo pools, NGS target enrichment panels and library preparation kits, variant libraries and antibody discovery services to researchers in pharma, biotech, diagnostics and academia, with production in South San Francisco and Wilsonville, Oregon and teams in Quincy, Massachusetts, Carlsbad and Asia. It hires manufacturing associates, automation and systems engineers, scientists, bioinformatics specialists, and sales and business development staff.
It is hiring: 43 open roles, 13 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 17% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Legal name
- Twist Bioscience Corp
- Headquarters
- South San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2013
- Employees
- 853US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Sep 2025 · -4% in a year
- Revenue
- $376.6M2025 · SEC
- Listing
- NASDAQ: TWST
- Open roles
- 43 in 5 citiesAlion job postings
- Register numbers
- NAME twist bioscience corp
- Official records
- Wikidata Q43303430SEC CIK 1581280
- Website
- twistbioscience.com
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 43 open roles at Twist Bioscience. Twist Bioscience is headquartered in South San Francisco, United States. It was founded in 2013. It has raised $188.6M in 4 funding rounds. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $50M, announced in 2018. The median pay stated in its open roles is $175k, across 22 postings that state pay.
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Science & Research is the largest family, 23 of open roles.
Pays 17% above the market estimate for the same roles.
Visa
Full chapter →Named in the work visa registers of United States.
In the register as Twist Bioscience Corporation, South San Francisco, CA (+1 more)
Footprint
Hiring in 5 cities in 2 countries.
| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South San Francisco United States | Headquarters | 22 | Science & Research, Management, Marketing | 36% |
| Portland United States | Plant / site | 9 | Industrial Engineering, Management, Operations | 11% |
| Carlsbad United States | Support & operations | 3 | Analytics, Management, Marketing | 33% |
| Guangzhou China | Plant / site | 2 | Management, Industrial Engineering | 0% |
| San Francisco United States | Support & operations | 1 | Sales | 0% |
| Singapore Singapore | Regional office | 0 | ||
| Boston United States | Regional office | 0 | ||
| Wilsonville United States | Regional office | 0 |
Peers
Compare →Ranked #6 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natera | Austin, United States | 166 | 1001-5000 | |
| 2 | Illumina | San Diego, United States | 140 | 5000+ | |
| 3 | Caris Life Sciences | Irving, United States | 102 | 1001-5000 | |
| 4 | Guardant Health | Palo Alto, United States | 93 | 1001-5000 | |
| 5 | BillionToOne | Menlo Park, United States | 78 | 201-500 | |
| 6 | Twist Bioscience | South San Francisco, United States | 43 | 201-500 | |
| 7 | 10x Genomics | Pleasanton, United States | 35 | 501-1000 | |
| 8 | Veracyte | South San Francisco, United States | 19 | 501-1000 |
Financials
Revenue of $376.6M in 2025. +20.3% on the year before. Net income −$77.7M.
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Twist Bioscience over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
