Remote Bioinformatics Scientist - Precision Medicine

Parexel; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Parexel seeks a Scientist, Precision Medicine / Bioinformatics to join our remote team in the United States. You will support clinical research activities focused on biomarker data analysis, pipeline automation, data quality oversight, and cross-study data integration.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, develop AI-assisted analysis workflows, and contribute from planning through data delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, Life Sciences, or related discipline.
• 4+ years of programming experience, preferably in life sciences or clinical research environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in R programming, R Shiny, and Bash scripting.
• Hands-on experience with biomarker data analytics and proteomic data analysis.
• Proficiency with version control tools (Git/GitHub) and SOPs in regulated environments.
• Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute data analysis and visualization tasks with minimal supervision, including figure and analysis updates, pipeline execution, data quality control, and results delivery.
• Run and optimize automated data processing pipelines, perform routine quality control on outputs, document run parameters and versions, and generate analytical outputs.
• Build and refresh interactive data viewers using R Markdown, Quarto, or Shiny for single-study and cross-study data exploration; publish outputs in agreed team formats.
• Support cross-study database integration activities including data collation, standardization, variable mapping, identifier harmonization, and validation.
• Contribute to experiment preparation activities such as generating balanced sample layouts and coordinating downstream submission steps.
• Maintain a reusable library of prompts, code snippets, and workflows for common bioinformatics tasks; establish coding standards and provide guidance on AI-assisted analysis workflows.

Skills

R

R Shiny

Python

Bash scripting

AI tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Bioinformatics / CS / Life Sciences

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

GitHub

Git

Job description

Parexel seeks a Scientist, Precision Medicine / Bioinformatics to join our remote team in the United States. You will support clinical research activities focused on biomarker data analysis, pipeline automation, data quality oversight, and cross-study data integration.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, develop AI-assisted analysis workflows, and contribute from planning through data delivery.