LatchBio
Bioinformatics Engineer - Biosurveillance
San Francisco or Remote · Full-time
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About the role
- Clinical or environmental metagenomics, including sequencing quality control, taxonomic classification, contamination assessment, pathogen discovery, and metagenomic assembly.
- Viral genome reconstruction, annotation, consensus generation, lineage or subtype assignment, and sequencing quality assessment.
- Variant calling, within-host diversity, mixed infections, haplotype reconstruction, recombination, and reassortment.
Responsibilities
- Molecular assay design, including qPCR primers and probes, tiled amplicon schemes, inclusivity and exclusivity analysis, and assay-dropout monitoring.
Requirements
- 3+ years hands-on experience with infectious disease surveillance, metagenomics, or molecular epidemiology data
- Proficiency in Python and/or R
- Candidates with all of the above qualifications + proven management skills will be eligible for more senior positions
Nice to have
- Waterfront office near Oracle Park, 2x free daily meals, unlimited snacks, company outings most months, and team offsites.
- Plus a vibrant community: cycling, soccer, figure skating, boxing, run clubs, reading clubs, martial arts, music, game nights.
Compensation
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Benefits
- Public-health bioinformatics, reproducible scientific software, data standards, uncertainty assessment, and communication of results to scientific decision-makers.
Visa & Work Authorization
- OPT visa holders only (not STEM Extension)
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