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Senior Software Engineer, Bioinformatics

Onsite or remote • Massachusetts+1💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-24 → 2026-09-24

Core

Lead architectural evolution of a large-scale, high-throughput germline clinical bioinformatics pipeline for diagnostic variant detection.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Production)

Builds

Clinical-grade variant detection modules and optimized bioinformatics pipelines

Domain

Clinical diagnostics / Genomics / Bioinformatics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python internals, Linux/Bash scripting, MongoDB architecture, variant calling algorithms, FASTQ/BAM/CRAM/VCF file formats, pytest, software design patterns

Preferred skills

TypeScript, Rust (Maturin/PyO3), C++, relational database design, data migrations

Technologies

Python, MongoDB, Linux, Bash, pytest, Typescript, Rust, C++, Maturin, PyO3

Responsibilities

Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in primary, secondary, and tertiary pipelines; automate business processes to scale sample throughput; design, develop, validate, and deploy algorithms for clinical-grade variant detection

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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