Cloud Bioinformatics Engineer – Genomics Pipelines

Harvard University; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement plans

Wellbeing and mental health resources

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

A prestigious university in Boston is looking for a skilled Bioinformatics Software Engineer to design and maintain scalable bioinformatics pipelines on cloud-based infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have expertise in next-generation sequencing data analysis, strong programming skills in Python, and experience with AWS services. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to biomedical discovery and innovation in a collaborative research environment.

Qualifications

• PhD in a related field is strongly preferred.
• Superb programming and communication skills.
• Extensive experience with high-throughput sequencing data.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain bioinformatics pipelines for high-throughput sequencing data.
• Build reproducible workflows using workflow management systems.
• Architect and manage AWS-based compute infrastructure.

Skills

Python

Shell scripting

Bioinformatics tools

Docker

AWS services (EC2, S3)

Version Control & CI/CD

Linux systems

HPC

Education

PhD in computational biology/bioinformatics/statistics/CS or another quantitative field

Minimum of five years’ post‑secondary education or relevant work experience

Job description

A prestigious university in Boston is looking for a skilled Bioinformatics Software Engineer to design and maintain scalable bioinformatics pipelines on cloud-based infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have expertise in next-generation sequencing data analysis, strong programming skills in Python, and experience with AWS services. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to biomedical discovery and innovation in a collaborative research environment.