CareerPlan

Senior Biomedical Informatics Programmer

Chicago, IL, USFull-time$100k–$150k2026-10-23 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, optimize, and maintain production-grade pipelines connecting genomic, phenotypic, and clinical data to support large-scale gene-disease discovery and precision medicine applications.

Role type

Senior IC biomedical informatics programmer (genomics & EHR)

Builds

Production pipelines for GWAS/PheWAS, computable phenotype algorithms, and web-based bioinformatics tools

Domain

Genomics, Electronic Health Records (EHR), and Population-scale Biobank Research

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, R, production data pipeline development, genomic data analysis (VCF), EHR data analysis (FHIR/OMOP), PheWAS/GWAS methods, biomedical ontologies (OMIM, HPO, DrugBank)

Preferred skills

Advanced degree in bioinformatics/computational biology, experience with large-scale biobank datasets

Technologies

Python, R, VCF, FHIR, OMOP, OMIM, HPO, DrugBank

Responsibilities

Optimize pipelines for gene-disease association analyses; Build computable phenotype algorithms integrating EHR and survey data; Develop scripts to analyze diverse health datasets; Support computational infrastructure for rare genetic variant studies; Collaborate with scientists to ensure scalable, reproducible pipelines; Lead implementation of web-based bioinformatics tools.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC