,Job Description

We are seeking a full-time Bioinformatics Engineer to design, build, and maintain genomics pipelines, while serving as a subject matter expert across computational biology domains including oncology, germline, pharmacogenomics, infectious diseases, biosurveillance, and more.

This is a high-impact role with direct influence on our product direction, scientific capabilities, and company growth.

As a Bioinformatics Engineer at Bitscopic, you will develop the systems and pipelines that power clinical insights, analytics, and decision support—ultimately enabling safe, high-quality patient care. You will play a key role across the full product lifecycle, from early ideation and prototyping to production deployment and continuous delivery.

Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders—including clinical partners, R&D, and commercial teams—you will translate complex biological and clinical requirements into scalable, reliable software solutions. Your work will directly impact patient outcomes across the country. At Bitscopic, you will help build technology that empowers physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals with actionable genomic insights to make more informed decisions.

What you will do

Draw from previous experience to build new, efficient, scalable genetic analysis pipelines for a wide variety of use cases - everything from epidemiological surveillance to precision medicine to genetics data sciences
Advise on appropriate tools and technologies
Help troubleshoot and support issues as they arise
Be involved in building across the entire stack from the back-end, to APIs to front end user interfaces to deliver end-to-end solutions.

What you bring to the team

5+ years of engineering experience with a good understanding of how to design robust and scalable genetic analysis pipelines.
A team player mentality with a willingness to support existing products and codebases.
Strong Python programming skills. Background with JS, Docker, database technologies (sqlite, MSSQL). A solid background in writing understandable, testable, and efficient Python.
Working knowledge and experience with tools such as: IGV, mimimap, STAR, bcftools, samtools, gatk, ivar, Geneious, databases and knowledge sets such as gnomad, clinvar, UCSC data tracks, COSMIC, etc.
Proficiency in unit testing, integration testing and continuous integration tools.
Familiarity with relevant tools and technologies and have a drive to stay up-to-date with ongoing changes and advancements.
Willingness and ability to take a deep dive into sequencing data, processes, technologies and provide meaningful insights and directions for our products
Knowledge of sequencing technologies and wet lab processes and their ramifications on downstream analysis.
Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts and ideas to other engineers and the ability to talk to customers.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus Points:

Startup/small company experience (juggling priorities, self-starter)
Familiar with HIPAA and healthcare
Laboratory background. Experience launching new clinical laboratory tests.
Implementing, migrating, and supporting application stacks to/in containers/serverless technologies

Company Description

Bitscopic has, since 2012, built clinical genomics software that turns complex biological data into actionable insights for healthcare and research institutions. Our flagship product, PraediGene, is a dry-lab genomic analysis platform deployed at major healthcare systems, including the VA. We are a small, senior-heavy engineering team, which means your work ships, your voice carries weight, and bureaucracy stays out of the way.

Why Bitscopic?

Mission-Driven - We are self-funded, owned by the team, and entirely focused on making a meaningful impact in healthcare while maintaining collaborative, transparent communication and ego-free team culture.
Team Culture - We value work-life balance, personal and professional growth, competitive compensation, continuous learning, and fun. We build essential products to positively impact and save lives. On our team, everyone’s voice is a vital contribution to the mission. Most of our team members have been with us for over six years.
Freedom to Focus - Leverage flexibility, autonomy, and schedule to do your best work. Control your approach to achieve results, along with the responsibility of delivering for the team and our customers.
Location Independent - Work from anywhere in the U.S.. We’ve been a distributed team since start.
Family-friendly work culture
Competitive compensation, including stock option awards
Top-quality medical insurance including dental, vision, as well as FSA employer contributions
Evaluated on the quality of your work, not on how much time you spend working

Pay: $120,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)
AD&D insurance
Dental insurance
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance

Work Location: Remote

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