
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist/Engineer
Bioscope AI
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Carmel • Massachusetts • United States
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About the role
- Join the AI-first team that is transforming precision medicine into everyday clinical practice.
- Play a major role in designing, validating, and continuously improving clinical-grade pipelines across pharmacogenomics (PGx), polygenic risk scoring (PRS), and other WGS applications.
- Produce production-grade tools capable of deriving clinical utility from raw genomic data.
- Work hand-in-hand with software engineers, medical subject matter experts, and regulatory leaders to deliver clinical grade interpretations directly in the hands of physicians.
- Architect and optimize clinical genomics pipelines in your area of expertise: PGx track and PRS track.
- Curate and maintain annotation stacks integrating domain-specific databases and proprietary AI-derived knowledge graphs.
- Implement validation, reproducibility, and audit trails; pipeline change-control logs; briefing decks.
- Partner with software and AI engineers to integrate genomic features into AI models. Participate in cross-team design reviews and internal workshops on clinical curation and validation.
Requirements
- PhD (or MS with 5+ yrs experience) in Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related field.
- 4+ yrs deep expertise in one of the following:
- Pharmacogenomics: star-allele calling, diplotype assignment, phenotype prediction, complex locus resolution
- Polygenic risk scoring: PRS development (PRS-CS, LDpred, etc.), multi-ancestry methods, clinical calibration, integrated scoring with phenotypic+monogenic data
- Solid grasp of variant calling (DRAGEN, GATK), structural variant/copy number variant detection, and functional annotation methods.
- Proficiency in Python for production-grade code, full unit-test coverage, REST API usage, reproducible statistical analysis, and visualizations; AWS database resource familiarity.
- Experience working in an agile based software organization, clearly documenting ticketed work, and modifying code in git-tracked production code bases.
- Comfort with AWS services (Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions, Glue, Athena).
- Highly comfortable with AI-based development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Agents).
Benefits
- Remote/Hybrid flexibility
- Comprehensive health/dental/vision plans
- 401k Plan
- Annual company wide meet-ups
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
pharmacogenomicspolygenic risk scoringvariant callingstructural variant detectioncopy number variant detectionfunctional annotation methodsPythonREST APIstatistical analysisvisualizations
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationdocumentationvalidationreproducibilityaudit trailschange controldesign reviewsworkshopsproblem-solving
Certifications
PhD in GeneticsPhD in GenomicsPhD in BioinformaticsPhD in Computational BiologyMS in related field