Principal Bioinformatician

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 146,410 - 192,164; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Flexible spending and health savings accounts

Paid time off including vacation and holidays

Job summary

Legend Biotech in Somerset, NJ, is looking for a Principal Bioinformatician to join its Early Drug Development team. This role involves supporting translational strategies by leading complex computational analyses that integrate diverse datasets to enable informed decision-making.

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Bioinformatics or related fields, with strong expertise in bioinformatics and significant experience in translational research, particularly in oncology. The position offers a hybrid work model with attractive benefits.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related sciences.
• 5+ years for PhD or 8+ years for MS experience.
• Strong background in translational oncology or immunology research.

Responsibilities

• Lead translational biomarker analyses integrating various assays.
• Support biomarker discovery and validation.
• Build reproducible bioinformatics pipelines for data analysis.

Skills

Bioinformatics

R and/or Python programming

Statistics

Linux/Unix computing

Translational research

Education

PhD in Bioinformatics or related field (5+ years)

MS in Bioinformatics or related field (8+ years)

Tools

Workflow management systems (Snakemake, Nextflow, etc.)

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Job description

Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to treating, and one day curing, life-threatening diseases. Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, we are developing advanced cell therapies across a diverse array of technology platforms, including autologous and allogenic chimeric antigen receptor T-cell, T-cell receptor (TCR-T), and natural killer (NK) cell-based immunotherapy. From our three R&D sites around the world, we apply these innovative technologies to pursue the discovery of safe, efficacious and cutting-edge therapeutics for patients worldwide.

Legend Biotech entered into a global collaboration agreement with Janssen, one of the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson, to jointly develop and commercialize ciltacabtagene autolecuel (cilta-cel). Our strategic partnership is designed to combine the strengths and expertise of both companies to advance the promise of an immunotherapy in the treatment of multiple myeloma.

Legend Biotech is seeking a Principal Bioinformatician as part of the Early Drug Development team based in Somerset, NJ or Remotely.

Role Overview

This role is to support translational strategies across pipeline development programs. He/She will lead computational analyses integrating multi-modality clinical, and biomarker datasets to enable mechanism-of-action understanding, patient stratification, pharmacodynamic assessment, etc. to support translational decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Translational Biomarker Analysis with multi-modality and multi-omics assays such as Bulk and Single cell RNA-seq, TCR/BCR-seq, WGS/WES, Amplicon-seq, ATAC-seq, ctDNA/liquid biopsy, Proteomics and cytokine profiling, spatial and multiplex imaging, Flow cytometry/CyTOF.
• Support translational biomarker discovery and validation including identification of pharmacodynamic (PD), predictive, prognostic, and response biomarkers; integrated analyses correlating biomarker data with: Clinical outcomes, PK/PD measurements, Safety for Patient stratification and Mechanism-of-action hypotheses.
• Build and maintain reproducible and scalable bioinformatics pipelines using cloud or high-performance computing environments. Contribute to translational data infrastructure and data governance strategies. Ensure analysis reproducibility, traceability, and documentation compliance.
• Partner closely with Translational scientists, Clinical Development, Research and CMC teams, CROs and collaborators to help translate complex computational findings into biologically meaningful insights.
• Contribute to regulatory documentation required biomarker sections of INDs, IBs, Clinical study reports and Regulatory briefing documents.
• He/she has the authority to make decisions related to methodologies and approaches development processes. He/she can make decisions related to project execution, including timelines, milestones and resource allocation within budget. Higher-level approvals are required for those related to significant technical selection, budget allocations, strategic shifts, or major collaborations that have substantial scientific, financial or long-term implications.

Requirements

• PhD (5+ years) or MS (8+ years) in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics, Systems Biology and related quantitative biological sciences.
• Strong expertise in bioinformatics, statistics with some biological training background, with experience in translational research in oncology, immunology or autoimmune disease. Gene and cell therapy involvement is a plus.
• Strong experience with: R and/or Python programming, Linux/Unix computing environments, Workflow management systems (e.g., Snakemake, Nextflow, WDL) with Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) preferred

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Benefits and Paid Time Off

Medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401(k) retirement plan with a company match that vests fully on day one. We offer eight (8) weeks of paid parental leave after just three (3) months of employment, and a paid time off policy that includes vacation time, personal time, sick time, floating holidays, and eleven (11) company holidays. Additional voluntary benefits include flexible spending and health savings accounts, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, legal assistance, and supplemental plans such as pet, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance. We also provide voluntary commuter benefits, family planning and care resources, well-being initiatives, and peer-to-peer recognition programs; demonstrating our ongoing commitment to building a culture where our people feel empowered, supported, and inspired to do their best work.

Pay Range (Base Pay)

$146,410 - $192,164 USD

Please note: These benefits are offered exclusively to permanent full-time employees. Contractors are not eligible for benefits through Legend Biotech.

EEO Statement

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