AstraZeneca
Associate Director, NGS & Bioinformatics
$142K–$214K
US – Santa Monica Colorado Avenue – CA · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of relevant pharmaceutical industry experience.
- Education
- PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology, or a related field.
About the job
Provides scientific and analytical leadership for bioinformatics analyses that generate translational and safety insights across AstraZeneca’s cell therapy pipeline.
What you'll do
- Lead scRNAseq analyses and oversee bioinformatics pipelines for single-cell transcriptomics and multi-omic integration.
- Apply AI/ML, computational models, and foundation models to address translational questions such as response prediction, biomarker discovery, and resistance profiling.
- Guide NGS assay readiness, communicate findings, collaborate across functions, and mentor junior team members.
What they ask for
- PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology, or a related field.
- Demonstrated expertise analyzing scRNAseq and multi-omic datasets, including generating translational and safety insights in Cell Therapy, immunology, or tumor biology programs.
- Proficiency in Python and R, with experience building and maintaining analytical pipelines.
- Experience with cloud computing and high-performance computing clusters for scalable data processing.
Pay
$142,377 - $213,566 USD (base pay)
Tools
scRNAseq, Python, R, AI/ML, NGS
AI focus
Applies AI/ML and advanced analytics to biological data; evaluates and implements foundation models for single-cell and multi-omic data, including pretraining, fine-tuning, representation learning, benchmarking, and deployment.
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