Freenome
Senior Bioinformatics Research Engineer
$162K–$227K
Brisbane, California +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- Brisbane, California
Remote - Experience
- 4+ years; PhD, or B.S./M.S. and equivalent experience.
- Education
- PhD in a quantitative field such as computational biology, cancer biology, statistics, bioinformatics, or computer science, or B.S./M.S. and equivalent experience.
About the job
Develops and deploys bioinformatics research software, tools, and scalable data pipelines supporting liquid biopsy research and the transition from research to product development.
What you'll do
- Lead development of the bioinformatics research engineering framework and internal tools.
- Build robust, reproducible data pipelines and integrate laboratory, bioinformatics, and clinical data for multiomic analysis.
- Improve the reliability and scalability of the science platform and develop software and workflows for research and production.
What they ask for
- PhD in a quantitative field, or B.S./M.S. and equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience with bioinformatics infrastructure, automation, and software engineering.
- Strong programming skills in Python or equivalent, with large-scale systems experience; experience in NGS data analysis and bioinformatic pipelines.
- Experience with containerized cloud computing (Docker in GCP, Azure, or AWS) and production software engineering practices, including testing, version control, and deployment.
Nice to have
- Experience applying statistical methods and algorithms to large-scale datasets.
- Experience analyzing epigenomics, proteomics (including mass spectrometry), or transcriptomics (RNA-seq).
Pay
$161,925 - $227,325 USD base salary rate
Tools
Python, Docker, GCP, Azure, AWS, NGS, RNA-seq
AI focus
Works at the intersection of machine learning research, computational biology, software engineering, and biological data; no specific AI model development is stated.
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