Senior Bioinformatician — Genetic Data & ML Insights

Mass General Brigham (Enterprise Services); Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

Mass General Brigham is seeking a bioinformatics professional to combine biology, medicine, and IT to collect and interpret data across genetics, pharmaceutics, and clinical fields. The role develops mathematical models, runs dynamic simulations, and analyzes patterns in biological systems.

The position is hybrid, located at 75 Francis Street, and involves collaboration with faculty and staff to troubleshoot, optimize pipelines, and advance research in computational biology.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in infrastructure, programming languages, and computational sciences.
• Demonstrated ability working with open-source bioinformatics software.
• Possess strong analytical skills, including critical thinking, data modeling, problem solving, and troubleshooting.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate, both orally and in writing, to all levels of staff.
• Excellent time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Independently design and execute bioinformatics analyses and research projects on small to mid-scale projects.
• Develop and optimize data analysis pipelines and workflows.
• Collaborate with scientists and researchers to define analysis goals and interpret results.
• Provide technical expertise and support for bioinformatics tools and software.
• Train junior scientists and provide technical guidance.
• Analyze data quality and integrity of data output from existing algorithms as part of the complex, multi-step specimen tracking and reporting process, across multiple systems and web-based interfaces.
• Develop new, innovative tools to enhance quality assurance reviews and improve assay and system performance.
• Design and apply novel computational methods/bioinformatics algorithms, machine learning models for building data models and tools using various software and statistical tools to aid in the analysis and interpretation of genetic data, clinical data, and images (NGS Algorithm development, Machine Learning).
• Analyze large molecular datasets from tumor sequencing to critically review and evaluate specimen testing results, working closely with faculty and staff to troubleshoot problems, recommend technology-based solutions, or determine computational strategies.

Skills

Bioinformatics analyses

Data pipelines

Programming languages

Research collaboration

Statistical analysis

Machine learning

Education

Bachelor's degree Computational Biology

Master's degree Computational Biology

Tools

Open-source bioinformatics software

NGS data analysis

Job description

Mass General Brigham is seeking a bioinformatics professional to combine biology, medicine, and IT to collect and interpret data across genetics, pharmaceutics, and clinical fields. The role develops mathematical models, runs dynamic simulations, and analyzes patterns in biological systems.

The position is hybrid, located at 75 Francis Street, and involves collaboration with faculty and staff to troubleshoot, optimize pipelines, and advance research in computational biology.