Bioinformatics Scientist (AI)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States

Salary: $100,000–$140,000 per year; the range applies when the role is performed from California and may vary for Colorado, Illinois, and New York.

Company

hirify.global develops a proprietary precision medicine platform that connects real-world evidence with clinical insights to support treatment decisions.

What you will do

• Develop, optimize, and analytically validate next-generation liquid biopsy assays and algorithms.
• Build machine learning and statistical models to detect oncology biomarkers from NGS and multimodal data, including SNVs, indels, CNVs, rearrangements, MSI, and bTMB.
• Estimate and track circulating tumor DNA fractions to support longitudinal treatment response monitoring.
• Improve molecular barcoding, noise suppression, and error-correction strategies for low-frequency biomarker detection.
• Design classifiers and filtering logic to distinguish clonal hematopoiesis variants from tumor-derived variants.
• Collaborate with wet-lab scientists, medical directors, clinical scientists, biostatisticians, software engineers, and product managers to deliver production-scale clinical pipelines.

Requirements

• Ph.D. or a master's degree with 3+ years of industry experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, cancer biology, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, or computer science.
• Advanced knowledge of tools and pipelines for processing, aligning, and analyzing multimodal NGS data, including DNA, RNA, and epigenetics.
• Programming experience with Python and/or R, including data science and biological computing libraries.
• Experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, and workflow management tools such as Nextflow or Snakemake.
• Background in statistical modeling, predictive and prognostic algorithms, and machine learning.
• Scientific publications or contributions to successful industry product development, along with strong communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Interdisciplinary collaboration across research, clinical, engineering, and product functions.
• Benefits may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical coverage, and other employee benefits.
• Equal opportunity employment and consideration under applicable fair-chance employment laws.