Sr. Bioinformatics Engineer

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The Position

The Opportunity:

As a Sr. Bioinformatics Engineer at Roche, you won’t just support cutting-edge science—you’ll help bring it to life. You’ll play a critical role in enabling our customers to analyze genomic data faster and more accurately than ever before, powered by Roche’s groundbreaking Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) technology.

SBX is redefining what's possible in next-generation sequencing, shrinking the time from sample to genome from days to hours. Its flexibility, scalability, and speed are set to transform both research and clinical genomics. In this role, you’ll be the vital link between our customers and this breakthrough platform—guiding data analysis pipelines, solving real-world bioinformatics challenges, and directly contributing to the advancement of genomic science.

If you’re looking to join a mission-driven team at the forefront of innovation, and help bring a powerful new sequencing technology to life, we’d love to hear from you.
 

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Train, enable, and support customers during pre- and post-sales stages on successfully implementing data analysis pipelines and technical discussions.

• Function as a link between customers and Roche, ensuring adequate bioinformatics and software support in response to customer inquiries.

• Collaborate with scientific support teams to investigate Roche solution inquiries or support pipeline implementation optimizations.

• Support customer and internal projects involving the design, development, and implementation of bioinformatics pipelines for analyzing large sequencing data sets, enabling the extraction of information.

• Partner with Marketing, Sales, and Scientific Support teams to understand commercial needs, identify data analysis gaps, and propose innovative solutions.

• Support sales in conducting scientific presentations, technical discussions, and customer meetings

• Provide customer feedback to product marketing and software development.

Travel 10% to 25% of the time in and outside the Boston area for customer on-site support and training.

This role is expected to work onsite at our Wilmington, MA office at least 3 days per week.
 

Who you are:

• PhD in a relevant subject (Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, or a closely related subject) with 3 years of related experience OR, Masters degree in a relevant subject (Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, or a closely related subject) with 8 years of related experience 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work as an effective team member of a goal-oriented team.

• Demonstrated proficiency in Python, source control tools (git), and pipeline workflow management tools like Nextflow or Snakemake.

• Demonstrated experience with next-generation sequencing data analyses and pipeline development or implementation.

• Demonstrated experience with implementing cloud-based computing infrastructure

• Understanding of  Linux systems administration.

• Demonstrated ability to plan, build, troubleshoot, and complete solutions to data problems, ideally in life sciences industry.

• Excellent organization and outstanding attention to detail.

• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.

• A basic knowledge of sequencing.

• Knowledge of state-of-the-art sequence analysis tools and workflows, such as sequence alignment, variant calling, de novo assembly, genome visualization, transcript mapping

• Knowledge of relational databases, such as PostgreSQL

This role is not eligible for relocation benefits

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Massachusetts is 122,300 - 227,100.00 USD