Senior Bioinformatician

LOCATION: 

We're open to both fully remote and hybrid work arrangements, with a preference for candidates located in the SF Bay Area, particularly those who can work from our South San Francisco, CA office.

POSITION SUMMARY: 

Natera is seeking a Senior Bioinformatician with extensive expertise in next-generation sequencing (NGS), quantitative biology, and methods development for high-volume clinical diagnostic sequencing applications.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Collaborate as part of a dynamic, cross-disciplinary team of molecular and computational biologists to develop innovative NGS assays for clinical diagnostics.
• Design and implement analysis tools and pipelines for diagnostic assays targeting tumor, germline, and cell-free DNA samples.
• Partner closely with wet lab scientists to develop, optimize, and troubleshoot complex, high-throughput NGS workflows encompassing diverse sample types and analytical targets.
• Work directly with clinical staff to validate and deploy diagnostic assays.
• Contribute to all stages of the process, from sequencing and analysis through validation and production deployment.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Master’s degree in bioinformatics with 4+ years post-graduate experience, or PhD with 1-3 years of post-graduate experience (preferred)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: 

• Deep understanding of DNA sequence data and its analysis.
• Strong background in statistics, including building statistical models, selecting appropriate test statistics, and performing power analyses.
• Experience with public genomics data sources, such as HapMap, dbSNP, and 1000 Genomes.
• Experience working with RNA-focused applications.
• Advanced proficiency in Python programming and workflow languages like Nextflow and WDL.
• Practical experience with high-performance computing environments (e.g., Kubernetes, SGE, LSF, SLURM).
• Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS or GCP.

The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.Remote USA$137,100—$171,450 USD

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

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Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

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