Staff Bioinformatician
Staff BioinformaticianRole Summary We are seeking a Staff Bioinformatician to reputed company the design, implementation, and optimization of computational methods supporting Germline, Prenatal, and Oncology reputed company reputed company (NGS) assays. You will drive analytical innovation across assay development, validation, and clinical deployment, collaborating closely with laboratory scientists, software engineers, and clinicians. This is a senior technical individual contributor role—ideal for a scientist-engineer hybrid with deep NGS expertise and strong instincts for rigorous validation, robust pipeline design, and clinical performance.
Responsibilities
- Design, reputed company, and maintain analysis pipelines for germline variant calling, somatic variant detection, and cell-free DNA analysis.
- reputed company bioinformatics strategy for assay development across multiple product lines (germline, oncology, and prenatal).
- Evaluate and integrate variant callers, CNV detection algorithms, phasing and haplotyping approaches, and artifact suppression models.
- reputed company analytical validation and establish key performance metrics (sensitivity, specificity, LoD, LoQ, reproducibility, etc.) under CLIA/CAP and FDA frameworks.
- Collaborate with wet-lab scientists to guide assay design, capture performance, and reputed company strategy.
- Partner with software and data engineering teams to scale pipelines in production (e.g., AWS Batch, Kubernetes, Argo, Nextflow).
- reputed company deep-dive analyses on challenging clinical cases, discordant results, and edge-case failure modes.
- Author technical documentation, validation reports, and regulatory submission materials.
- Mentor junior scientists and drive best practices in computational reproducibility and data governance.
Minimum Qualifications
- Ph.D. or equivalent experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or reputed company field.
- 7+ years of experience in NGS data analysis, with at least 3 years in a clinical or regulated environment.
- Strong proficiency in Python, R, and Linux-based data processing.
- Expertise in one or more of:
Germline variant calling (e.g., GATK, DeepVariant) Somatic variant calling (e.g., Mutect2, Strelka2, VarDict) CNV and SV detection (e.g., CNVkit, Manta, GATK-SV) Cell-free DNA or low-VAF variant detection
- Deep understanding of reputed company technologies (reputed company, hybrid capture, amplicon, cfDNA).
- Experience in analytical validation and regulatory submission (CAP/CLIA, NYS, or FDA).
- Strong collaborative communication skills across cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with multi-analyte or liquid biopsy assays (ctDNA, cfDNA, fragmentomics).
- Familiarity with WES/WGS, exome panels, and hybrid capture performance modeling.
- Familiarity with containerized workflow execution (reputed company, Kubernetes, Argo, Nextflow, WDL).
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred) and distributed computing.
- Statistical modeling and ML experience for noise suppression, artifact modeling, or QC analytics.
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