natera
Senior/Lead Bioinformatics Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- US Remote
- Work Regime
- remote
- Employment
- employment_required
- Posted
- 2026-02-13T09:26:40-05:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Medical
Requirements
MS or PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related field, with a strong focus on cancer genomics or epigenomics
Extensive hands-on experience developing bioinformatics pipelines using Nextflow and/or WDL
, including complex multi-step NGS workflows
Proven track record of building and supporting
production-level bioinformatics software
Responsibilities
Architect, develop, and maintain scalable, production-ready bioinformatics pipelines
for next-generation sequencing data, with primary ownership of workflows implemented in
Nextflow and WDL
Lead pipeline design decisions with a strong emphasis on
modularity, reusability, robustness, scalability, and maintainability
Refactor and optimize existing pipelines to improve performance, cost efficiency, fault tolerance, and ease of extension