Bioinformatics Engineer, Pipelines
MithrlGenomic Data company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
Headline
Bonfire Ventures
Jenny Fielding
Scott Hartley
Agi House
Obvious Ventures
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Build and scale scientific processing pipelines for bioinformatics.
- •We are looking for a Lead Bioinformatics Pipeline Engineer to build and scale Mithrl’s multi modal scientific processing pipelines.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and maintain production grade bioinformatics pipelines for a wide range of data modalities.
- •Build workflows using Nextflow, nf-core modules, or similar engines with a focus on reproducibility, validation, and scalability.
- •Implement quality control, validation, and provenance tracking for all supported modalities.
- •Collaborate with the Tabular Data Team to ensure pipeline outputs map cleanly into Mithrl’s internal schemas.
- •Work with the Knowledge Curation Team to align outputs with reference genomes, annotations, and biological ontologies.
- •Requirements 6 to 8 years of experience in bioinformatics workflow engineering or computational biology.
- •Strong experience with Nextflow, nf-core, WDL, CWL, Snakemake, or similar workflow systems.
- •Proficiency in Python or R for data processing, QC, and pipeline logic.
- •Hands-on experience building pipelines for multiple biological data types.
- •Ability to design pipelines that are reproducible and containerized using Docker or Singularity.
Required skills
PythonRDocker
Nice-to-have skills
AWS
Domain expertise
biotech
Benefits & perks
Comprehensive PPO health coverage, 401(k)
Tech stack
PythonRDockerAWS