Bioinformatics Software Engineer at Harvard Medical School

Compensation

$0/yr

Setup: Remote, Hybrid
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Type: Full-time
Posted: Feb 23, 2026

Description

Harvard Medical School is seeking a highly skilled Bioinformatics Software Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable bioinformatics pipelines on cloud-based infrastructure. The role involves managing multi-omic data, ensuring reproducible code, and collaborating with research scientists and IT teams to improve human health.

Required Skills

Python
Shell Scripting
High-throughput Sequencing Data
Sequence Alignment
Variant Calling
Docker
Workflow Description Language
AWS Services
Git

Additional Information

Minimum Education: PhD in computational biology/bioinformatics/statistics/CS or another quantitative field.
Required Previous Experiences: Extensive experience with analysis of high-throughput sequencing data and knowledge of bioinformatics tools for sequence alignment, variant calling, sequence data QC, etc.
Proficiency in Docker for creating a reproducible execution environment and Workflow Description Language for orchestrating complex tasks.
Strong understanding of AWS services (EC2, S3) or similar cloud platforms for compute and storage.
Version Control & CI/CD: Git, automated testing, deployment workflows.
Experience with Linux systems, HPC, and distributed computing environments.
Knowledge of optimizing pipelines for large-scale genomic projects.