Overview Senior-level bioinformatics scientist to lead complex projects, translate business needs into technical solutions, and drive innovative analytics in genomics. You will collaborate with molecular biology and clinical teams, shape assay development, ensure regulatory compliance, and optimize pipelines to improve accuracy, turnaround time, and decision support. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with cross-functional strategy in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
Compensation / Benefits- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid Time Off / Flexible Time Off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Responsibilities- Lead and manage complex technical projects and innovation in bioinformatics methods
- Translate business needs into technical requirements and design architectures
- Build cross-functional relationships to meet strategic targets
- Advise on complex bioinformatics and engineering matters for stakeholders
- Design and implement advanced bioinformatics solutions with genomics focus
- Collaborate with molecular biology teams on assay development and analysis
- Drive regulatory compliance through analysis, verification/validation and documentation
- Develop and optimize complex analysis pipelines with robust algorithms
- Guide result interpretation and reporting standards considering medical/commercial needs
- Establish QC metrics and procedures to ensure data integrity
- Drive improvements in accuracy, cost of goods (COGS), and turnaround time
- Lead verification and validation efforts following compliance processes
- Interface with clinical and commercial stakeholders as consumers of bioinformatic data
- Architect and implement complex software systems with maintainable APIs
- Establish development standards, observability, and monitoring
- Lead technical design reviews and enforce robust testing frameworks
- Guide architectural decisions for adjacent software systems
- Promote engineering best practices across teams
- Drive system reliability and performance metrics
Key requirements- Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of related experience, or Master's with 6+, or PhD with 4+ years in bioinformatics, molecular biology, computational biology or engineering
- Experience leading technical projects (preferred)
- Experience in system architecture and design with tools like BWA, GATK, Dragen, Nextflow, Python, SKLearn, SciPy, PyTORCH, CI/CD, or GitHub Actions
- Understanding of regulatory requirements in bioinformatics and associated documentation
- Strong knowledge of bioinformatics algorithms and statistical techniques
- Experience with molecular biology concepts underlying products
- Ability to select unbiased datasets and manage data quality
- Project leadership and strategic thinking skills
- Advanced communication for diverse stakeholders
- Strategic thinking
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Stakeholder management
- BWA
- GATK
- DeepVariant
