Bioinformatician
serovaMillbrae (CA)
About the role
About SerovaSerova builds personalized cancer vaccines. Each vaccine is made for the individual patient from their own samples and given in partnership with their treating physician. We work directly with patients, more like a consumer health company than a hospital, so our data work is about real people with real questions.
The role:
We work directly with patients, more like a consumer health company than a hospital. Patients and their physicians come to us with questions about their own data. You'll work closely with patients on their own data: building custom workflows for each one, monitoring and analyzing their results over time, and helping find treatments and build treatment plans tailored to them.
What you'll do:
- Build custom analysis workflows for each patient
- Monitor and analyze patient sequencing and test results over time
- Help find personalized treatments and build treatment plans with our clinical team
- Answer ad hoc questions from patients and physicians quickly, and explain the results clearly
Who you are:
- A bioinformatician who likes being close to the patient
- You turn around a question on one patient's data in hours, not weeks
- You can explain a result to someone who isn't a scientist
- High agency, friendly and low ego
Requirements:
- A PhD in bioinformatics or computational biology, or 3+ years doing it in industry
- Hands-on experience with real patient sequencing data: WES, WGS or RNA-seq
- Comfortable with software engineering: you write production-quality code, not only one-off scripts
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or London, or willing to relocate
- Authorized to work in the US or UK, or a realistic path to get there
- What will make you stand out
- Fast-paced startup experience: you've shipped production code in a small team, not only academic or purely mathematical work
- Patient-facing or clinical genomics, such as clinical reporting, tumor boards, or answering questions for patients and physicians
- Cancer genomics: somatic variants, HLA typing, neoantigen prediction, ctDNAExperience at a sequencing platform or diagnostics company
- Comfort with quick, well-documented ad hoc analyses, not only long projects
- Clear communication with patients, physicians and care teams
Details
Location: San Francisco or London
Type: Full-time
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