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Senior Bioinformatics Engineer – Prenatal

Senior Bioinformatics Engineer – Prenatal

CompanyBillionToOne
LocationMenlo Park, CA, USA
Salary$156060 – $176868
TypeFull-Time
DegreesPhD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • PhD in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Bioengineering, or other relevant field
  • 3-5 years of biology or bioinformatics research experience (during PhD or afterwards)
  • 2-3 years of experience analyzing NGS data (during PhD or afterwards)
  • 1-2 years of full-stack software development experience
  • Expertise in Python
  • Experience with R, or other programming languages used for data visualization
  • Experience using data structures and industry tools, (GitHub, AWS, Heroku, PostgreSQL)
  • Expertise with command-line tools and shell scripting within UNIX environments
  • Experience with building and maintaining front-end tools for interacting with and visualizing analytical data
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to work across functional teams and with non-experts.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and troubleshoot day-to-day operations for clinical NGS data analysis
  • Build and maintain infrastructure and tools to support the collection and analysis of assay performance metrics, and contribute to publications that demonstrate the clinical validity and utility of our tests
  • Design and build new tools to scale and automate variant filtering, interpretation, and classification processes
  • Collaborate and build microservice solutions with 10+ other clinically-oriented teams at BillionToOne
  • Support the development of sophisticated and robust NGS analysis pipelines capable of processing tens of thousands of samples
  • Design and build new visualization tools to support clinical decisions made by genetic counselors and lab directors.
  • Utilize SDLC and design control processes for building software used in regulated environments
  • Conduct software design reviews; communicates plans and outcomes through architecture diagrams, presentations, and other project reports

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with cross-functional teams
  • Experience in leading and managing projects involving external team stakeholders
  • Experience in mentoring or managing direct reports
  • Biophysics, Molecular biology (DNA purification, PCR, electrophoresis), DNA synthesis, or next-generation DNA sequencing laboratory experience
  • IT troubleshooting experience