
Bioinformatics Analyst
Mendelics
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Brazil
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About the role
- Develop new methods that provide clinically actionable results from sequencing data;
- Create and optimize bioinformatics pipelines, balancing biological answer quality with computational performance;
- Ensure reproducibility and traceability of analyses, guaranteeing that clinical processing is consistent and auditable;
- Perform ad hoc analyses of experimental laboratory data to inform decisions about standardizing new pipelines;
- Work in a multidisciplinary team, writing clean, maintainable code with good test coverage;
- Understand key sequencing metrics and automate quality-control checks.
Requirements
- Practical experience in genomics and bioinformatics, focused on solving problems in the simplest and most maintainable way possible;
- Experience evaluating, validating, and operating open-source tools for sequencing pipelines (alignment, variant calling, CNVs, etc.);
- Development of NGS pipelines in Python supported by engineering best practices, including strong knowledge of Git, testing, and CI/CD;
- Hands-on experience with cloud computing (GCP or AWS);
- Clinical production mindset: build autonomous, self-monitoring pipelines that ensure traceability, tests, and alerts operate systemically without relying on manual intervention;
- Ability to communicate clearly and align requirements between physicians, developers, and product teams;
Benefits
- Flexible Benefits - Flash;
- 100% Remote (Home Office);
- 40-hour workweek;
- Health and Dental insurance;
- Gympass / TotalPass.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
bioinformaticsgenomicsNGS pipelinesPythonGitCI/CDsequencing metricsquality-control checksvariant callingCNVs
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationteam collaborationclean codingmaintainabilitytraceabilityauditingdecision-makingalignment of requirementsautonomy