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The Position

The Opportunity As a Bioinformatics Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and implement features for the bioinformatics components and pipelines that are used in Roche Sequencing products. You will be part of a team working in a fast paced environment, developing cutting-edge, distributed, scale-out Next-Generation Sequencing data analysis software to ensure the highest possible software quality for gene sequencing research and disease diagnostics.

Work closely with experimental teams to understand their requirements and translate them into functional software, implementing those solutions directly within an existing research code repository. Collaborate with research and algorithm experts, accelerating bioinformatics techniques using GPU hardware. You will navigate and contribute to a large code base, applying your knowledge of advanced bioinformatics techniques (such as alignment methods and other sequence analysis algorithms) and neural nets to continuously improve the quality and feature sets of the software products.

Who You Are

• B.S. or M.S. or PhD in Computational Biology or Bioinformatics or Biomedical engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in working with NGS data and data analysis pipelines.
• Strong expertise in Python, including numerical computing and data science libraries, alongside familiarity with C/C++.
• Demonstrated experience developing, maintaining, or refactoring within a large code base or existing research code repository.
• Understanding of core bioinformatics techniques, including alignment methods, as well as neural nets.
• Experience collaborating with experimental teams to gather requirements and implement technical solutions.
• Thrives in a fast paced environment, showing a self-driven, detail oriented, and analytical approach with a proven ability to learn quickly.
• Proficiency in GCP, AWS and Linux Shell environments.
• Be a team player, customer focused with excellent interdisciplinary collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Practical experience utilizing GPU-accelerated C/C++ libraries or knowledge of GPUs and CUDA.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and concepts.

Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $145,300-$269,800. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

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