Novaflow

Job Summary:
Novaflow is an AI data analyst for biology labs, aiming to streamline the analysis process for researchers. They are seeking a Founding Bioinformatics Engineer to build and maintain bioinformatics pipelines, ensuring the analysis is accurate and scalable on cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
• Build and maintain bioinformatics pipelines for genomics, transcriptomics, and other -omics data
• Write clean, reproducible analysis code in Python and/or R
• Set up and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) for large-scale compute workloads
• Integrate existing bioinformatics tools, databases, and data sources into the platform
• Validate pipeline outputs against published methodologies and real scientific standards
• Work with academic labs, tool providers, and data partners to expand what the platform can do
• Help decide what we build next based on what researchers actually need
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field (PhD is a plus)
• 2+ years building bioinformatics pipelines or computational biology workflows
• Strong in Python and/or R
• Know your way around bioinformatics file formats (FASTQ, BAM, VCF, HDF5, etc.)
• Experience running workloads on AWS or GCP
• Comfortable in Linux/Unix command-line environments
• Solid understanding of molecular biology (genomics, gene expression, variant calling)
• Good communicator who can work across biology and engineering
Preferred:
• Experience with Nextflow, Snakemake, or similar workflow managers
• Docker experience
• Familiarity with LLMs or AI/ML tools
• Experience across multiple biomedical domains
• Startup or biotech/pharma background
• Previous startup experience (prior experience either working for or founding a startup)
Company:
Creating tools to automate data analysis for life science researchers. Founded in 2025, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 2-10 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.