Lead Bioinformatics Scientist - Genomics Pipelines (Remote)

Helix; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

401(k) with employer matching

Flexible PTO

Home office stipend

Remote options for many roles

Job summary

Helix is a leader in genomics-enabled healthcare, hiring a Staff Bioinformatics Scientist to advance our NGS pipelines and ensure high-quality clinical results. You will lead new capabilities, collaborate with engineering, lab, quality, and clinical teams, and help triage data underpinning variant calls.

You will also help develop analytics, validations, and tools to sustain reliable operations in a regulated setting and drive impact across patient care.

Qualifications

• Master's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience or PhD with 3+ years.
• Hands-on experience with analyzing DNA sequencing data.
• Coding and/or data analysis experience in Python.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new challenges to drive tasks to completion.

Responsibilities

• Develop new bioinformatics capabilities to expand use cases and drive volume.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, lab, quality, and clinical teams to launch new science products.
• Support operations by evaluating and triaging bioinformatics data underlying clinical variant calls.
• Oversee bioinformatics operations, including developing tools and methods to identify and track key metrics
• Develop, maintain, and document clinical analytical validations

Skills

DNA sequencing data analysis

Python coding

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Willingness to learn

Education

Master's degree + 5+ years

PhD + 3+ years

Tools

Bioinformatics pipelines

NGS data analysis

Job description

Helix is a leader in genomics-enabled healthcare, hiring a Staff Bioinformatics Scientist to advance our NGS pipelines and ensure high-quality clinical results. You will lead new capabilities, collaborate with engineering, lab, quality, and clinical teams, and help triage data underpinning variant calls.

You will also help develop analytics, validations, and tools to sustain reliable operations in a regulated setting and drive impact across patient care.