DNAnexus is the leading cloud-based SaaS company serving the global life science community. DNAnexus’ health informatics platform serves customers across a spectrum of industries — government, biopharmaceutical, clinical diagnostics, healthcare, and academic research in 33 countries with compliant protection of data, privacy, and intellectual property. The platform provides a secure and collaborative environment where genomics, multi-omics, and real world data can be combined with clinical data at scale, providing new insights that can lead to improved diagnostics, new targeted therapies and better patient care.

This is an exciting opportunity to join DNAnexus’ growing team. We are looking for a bioinformatician familiar with genomics who enjoys working hands-on with other scientists, software engineers, and clients to solve informatics challenges to join our team. As a member of the Bioinformatics team in the DNAnexus xVantage organization,  you will work with industry leaders across all aspects of genomics, gaining exposure to leading genomic science and application development. You will advise customers on best-practices, develop and integrate bioinformatics pipelines, data standards, methods, and datasets into the DNAnexus platform. You'll also be the scientific and technical liaison between DNAnexus and some of the highest-profile clients to help them fully leverage DNAnexus products and services to achieve their scientific objectives.  

Responsibilities

• Research, integrate,  test and validate new bioinformatics methods on the DNAnexus Platform.
• Ability to develop reusable, well-tested software in WDL, Python, R or shell scripting.
• Work directly with clients to assess their scientific and bioinformatics needs and creatively propose solutions to meet or exceed these needs.
• Advise customers on research and clinical pipelines incorporating multi-omics data of various types
• Introduce DNAnexus to prospective customers and demonstrate how we can help them migrate to the cloud.
• Teach new customers how to use the DNAnexus platform and SDK to develop their own analytic tools
• Advance our relationships with scientific and technical users, achieve customer satisfaction objectives, and grow our active user base.
• Synthesize learnings from customers to help direct our technology development roadmap. 

Requirements

• Masters, or equivalent experience, in computer science, bioinformatics, computational biology, biology, genetics, or related discipline with a computational emphasis. A Ph.D. is desirable.
• Strong programming ability in relevant framework and languages such as WDL, CWL, Nextflow, Python, R or shell scripting.
• Hands-on experience with genomics sequence analysis, for example, using popular tools such as BWA and GATK.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills. This also requires the ability to effectively communicate complex topics with a diverse audience.
• Enjoys interacting closely with DNAnexus customers.
• Available for occasional travel (~25%) to conferences and to customer sites. 

Desirable skills

Below are the skills that are highly desirable, but are not required. DNAnexus will provide the necessary training to qualified candidates:

• Understanding of cloud computing and high-performance computing.
• Experience designing automated processes with REST APIs, cron jobs, github actions, AWS Lambda, etc, especially for mission critical systems.
• Experience with big data analytics technologies including Spark, Hive, and Hadoop.
• Experience implementing data science solutions, especially AI/ML.
• Experience with a variety of multi-omics or other complex data types.
• Familiarity with software development and project management processes and tools (agile, JIRA, github, etc.).

Based in Mountain View, California, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and is searching for the best talent to join our team. We recently completed a $100 million financing round to advance our growth globally to further serve leading healthcare and life science organizations. Key investors include Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures, TPG Biotech, and Foresite Capital.

If you are interested in joining our team, please apply today! 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.