Senior Bioinformatics Programmer - Metagenomics Virome

Baylor College of Medicine; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 71,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

The Baylor College of Medicine is seeking a Senior Scientific Programmer for the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research Center (CMMR). This remote role within Texas focuses on developing scalable bioinformatics workflows to support microbiome and virome studies.

The successful candidate will implement pipelines using Snakemake/Nextflow, collaborate with investigators, and contribute to translational research, data visualization, and software tooling within HPC environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field; 3 years of relevant experience required.
• Ph.D. in relevant field preferred for advanced roles.
• Experience with bioinformatics methods and software development is essential.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with research teams to support project execution and software development.
• Develops, tests, and maintains automated bioinformatics pipelines for high-throughput data.
• Builds interactive data visualization tools and dashboards (e.g., R Shiny).
• Maintains HPC environments and data management workflows for reproducibility.
• Contributes to grant proposals, manuscripts, and documentation of software tools.

Skills

Python

R

Bash

Snakemake

Nextflow

HPC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Biology, or related discipline

Tools

SQL

DynamoDB

NoSQL

Job description

The Baylor College of Medicine is seeking a Senior Scientific Programmer for the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research Center (CMMR). This remote role within Texas focuses on developing scalable bioinformatics workflows to support microbiome and virome studies.

The successful candidate will implement pipelines using Snakemake/Nextflow, collaborate with investigators, and contribute to translational research, data visualization, and software tooling within HPC environments.