Bioinformatician

Serova; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Serova, a patient-centric biotech startup, seeks a bioinformatician to design and operate patient-specific analysis workflows. You will work closely with patients and clinicians, tailoring analyses to individual data, and turning complex results into understandable insights that guide treatment decisions.

You will monitor sequencing results across time, identify meaningful patterns, and collaborate with the clinical team to propose personalized treatment plans.

Qualifications

• PhD in bioinformatics or computational biology, or 3+ years doing it in industry.
• Hands-on experience with real patient sequencing data: WES, WGS or RNA-seq.
• Comfortable with software engineering: you write production-quality code, not only one-off scripts.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or London, or willing to relocate.
• Authorized to work in the US or UK, or a realistic path to get there.

Responsibilities

• Build custom analysis workflows for each patient
• Monitor and analyze patient sequencing and test results over time
• Help find personalized treatments and build treatment plans with our clinical team
• Answer ad hoc questions from patients and physicians quickly, and explain the results clearly

Skills

Bioinformatics

Patient-facing

Data analysis

Effective communication

Rapid problem solving

Education

PhD in bioinformatics or computational biology

Job description

About Serova

Serova builds personalized cancer vaccines. Each vaccine is made for the individual patient from their own samples and given in partnership with their treating physician. We work directly with patients, more like a consumer health company than a hospital, so our data work is about real people with real questions.

The role

We work directly with patients, more like a consumer health company than a hospital. Patients and their physicians come to us with questions about their own data.

You'll work closely with patients on their own data: building custom workflows for each one, monitoring and analyzing their results over time, and helping find treatments and build treatment plans tailored to them.

What you'll do

• Build custom analysis workflows for each patient

• Monitor and analyze patient sequencing and test results over time

• Help find personalized treatments and build treatment plans with our clinical team

• Answer ad hoc questions from patients and physicians quickly, and explain the results clearly

Who you are

• A bioinformatician who likes being close to the patient

• You turn around a question on one patient's data in hours, not weeks

• You can explain a result to someone who isn't a scientist

• High agency, friendly and low ego

Requirements

• A PhD in bioinformatics or computational biology, or 3+ years doing it in industry

• Hands-on experience with real patient sequencing data: WES, WGS or RNA-seq

• Comfortable with software engineering: you write production-quality code, not only one-off scripts

• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or London, or willing to relocate

• Authorized to work in the US or UK, or a realistic path to get there

What will make you stand out

• Fast-paced startup experience: you've shipped production code in a small team, not only academic or purely mathematical work

• Patient-facing or clinical genomics, such as clinical reporting, tumor boards, or answering questions for patients and physicians

• Cancer genomics: somatic variants, HLA typing, neoantigen prediction, ctDNA

• Experience at a sequencing platform or diagnostics company

• Comfort with quick, well-documented ad hoc analyses, not only long projects

• Clear communication with patients, physicians and care teams

Details

• Location: San Francisco or London

• Type: Full-time