Bioinformatician (AI)

Location: South Plainfield, New Jersey, United States

Salary: $107,000–$134,000 annual base compensation

Company

hirify.global by Azenta provides R&D genomics services, including Sanger sequencing, gene synthesis, molecular biology, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, and GLP regulatory services, for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, and startup customers.

What you will do

• Design reusable algorithms, analytical services, and workflow components for sequence design, construct risk, manufacturability, and functional performance evaluation.
• Build configurable frameworks integrating public scientific resources, proprietary algorithms, and standardized decision rules for sequence and vector design.
• Develop customer-facing analytics, visualizations, APIs, and self-service tools that convert biological data into actionable insights.
• Architect, validate, and maintain scalable short-read, long-read, Sanger, and hybrid sequencing workflows covering quality control, assembly, variant analysis, exception handling, and results delivery.
• Apply AI and machine learning to workflow orchestration, data interpretation, quality assessment, troubleshooting, summarization, and platform improvement.
• Collaborate with informatics, laboratory, quality, commercial, software, product, and client-facing teams; maintain architecture, validation, release, operating, and user documentation.

Requirements

• PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, molecular biology, biostatistics, computer science, or a related field preferred; candidates with a master’s degree and relevant experience may also be considered.
• Experience designing and developing automated NGS and long-read analysis workflows, including assembly, polishing, structural variant analysis, quality control, and exception handling.
• Experience supporting FASTQ, FASTA, BAM/CRAM, VCF, BED, GFF/GTF, and GenBank formats.
• Experience translating plasmid or viral vector design principles into computational rules, algorithms, or platform capabilities addressing expression, stability, packaging, delivery, manufacturability, and functional outcomes.
• Strong understanding of molecular biology, genetics, cloning, gene regulation, plasmid and viral vector architecture, and sequence-to-function relationships.
• Working knowledge of short-read and long-read sequencing technologies, including error profiles, strengths, limitations, and analysis strategies.
• Proficiency in Linux and programming or scripting; Python, R, or Bash preferred.
• Experience with version control, collaborative code review, automated testing, reproducible builds, and technical documentation for production workflows.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience developing production-quality scientific software, workflow platforms, pipelines, APIs, or analytical services integrated with public datasets, biological databases, laboratory systems, and open-source scientific tools.
• Software development experience across requirements definition, architecture, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, release management, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Experience designing and optimizing AAV, lentiviral, CRISPR, microbial, or other engineered vector systems and linking design choices to experimental performance.
• Experience with modern AI/ML methods applied to biological data.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a collaborative, customer-focused environment centered on innovation, accountability, teamwork, and scientific quality.
• Work involves cross-functional collaboration across scientific, laboratory, software, quality, product, and commercial teams.
• Azenta is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants regardless of legally protected characteristics.

Hiring process

• Applicants unable to complete the application or respond to the opening because of a disability may contact Recruiting@azenta.com for assistance.