Marine Genomics Bioinformatician

Northeastern University; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Northeastern University’s Lotterhos Lab in Nahant, MA seeks a Bioinformatician to design and maintain scalable pipelines for large-scale genomic data, with emphasis on short-read alignment and population inference.

The role is in-person and requires a Master’s in a related field, 2–5 years of experience, and hands-on expertise with BWA, Bowtie2, STAR, GATK, SAMtools, Snakemake/Nextflow, and HPC environments. You will collaborate across wet lab and computational teams.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in biology or related fields.
• 2–5 years of hands-on bioinformatics experience in genomics.
• Proficiency with short-read alignment tools (BWA, Bowtie2, STAR).
• Familiarity with SAMtools, GATK, Picard; experience with pipelines (Snakemake/Nextflow).
• Strong scripting in Python, R, Bash; Unix/Linux command line comfort.
• Experience in HPC/HTC environments and schedulers (SLURM/HTCondor).
• Experience using APIs for data transfer and remote servers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable bioinformatics pipelines for population genomics.
• Align short-read sequencing data to reference genomes and assess mapping quality.
• Perform downstream analyses: variant calling, filtering, QC.
• Document pipelines for reproducibility and publication.
• Develop tutorials and assist with website development.
• Collaborate with wet lab and computational teams to standardize data.

Skills

Python

R

Bash

Unix/Linux

HPC/HTC experience

APIs / data transfer

Education

Master's degree in Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genetics, or related field

Tools

BWA

Bowtie2

STAR

SAMtools

GATK

Picard

Snakemake

Nextflow

Git

Docker

Singularity/Apptainer

SLURM

HTCondor

Job description

Northeastern University’s Lotterhos Lab in Nahant, MA seeks a Bioinformatician to design and maintain scalable pipelines for large-scale genomic data, with emphasis on short-read alignment and population inference.

The role is in-person and requires a Master’s in a related field, 2–5 years of experience, and hands-on expertise with BWA, Bowtie2, STAR, GATK, SAMtools, Snakemake/Nextflow, and HPC environments. You will collaborate across wet lab and computational teams.