Senior Bioinformatics R&D Engineer - Hybrid/Remote, Equity

Peptide Atlas; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Cash bonuses

Medical benefits

Job summary

Freenome is seeking a Senior Bioinformatics Research Engineer to advance the computational platform for R&D, developing bioinformatics software and tooling. You will work with computational biologists, ML scientists, and software engineers to deliver scalable data pipelines for cutting-edge liquid biopsy research.

The role reports to the Director of Bioinformatics Research Engineering and offers a hybrid option from our Brisbane, California headquarters (2-3 days in the office) or remote work.

Qualifications

• PhD in quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years in bioinformatics infrastructure, automation, and software engineering.
• Strong programming in Python and large-scale systems experience.
• Fundamental bioinformatics knowledge and familiarity with regulatory processes.

Responsibilities

• Work at the intersection of computational biology, ML research, software engineering and biological data.
• Lead the development of Freenome’s bioinformatics research engineering framework and internal tools.
• Build for significant growth and scaling as research moves toward product development.
• Engineer robust data pipelines enabling liquid biopsy research.
• Manage and integrate data sources across lab, bioinformatics, and clinical teams for multiomic analyses.
• Improve reliability and scalability of the science platform.

Skills

Python

Big data / distributed systems

Research collaboration

Automation software engineering

Education

PhD in quantitative field

BS/MS with equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

NGS data pipelines

Job description

Freenome is seeking a Senior Bioinformatics Research Engineer to advance the computational platform for R&D, developing bioinformatics software and tooling. You will work with computational biologists, ML scientists, and software engineers to deliver scalable data pipelines for cutting-edge liquid biopsy research.

The role reports to the Director of Bioinformatics Research Engineering and offers a hybrid option from our Brisbane, California headquarters (2-3 days in the office) or remote work.