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Storm3

Staff Bioinformatics Engineer

Storm3, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Overview Join a technology-driven organization whose mission is to apply artificial intelligence to understand biology, with the aim of improving human health and advancing scientific discovery. This work emphasizes open, responsible research and collaboration with the scientific community.

Base pay range $200,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr

Up to $300k Base + Significant Equity + Bonus

Interested in joining a start-up that are driving frontier AI research to understand biology?

The Role

Design, develop, and maintain scalable data processing pipelines to support AI-based biological models.

Convert research scripts into production-quality code, implementing robust testing, documentation, and deployment workflows.

Create automated workflows to process complex biological datasets (e.g., genomic or proteomic data).

Collaborate with research scientists and AI engineers to meet evolving model training needs.

Innovate pipeline architectures to enhance scalability, performance, and efficiency.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

3+ years of experience in bioinformatics or data pipeline development.

Strong programming ability in Python.

Expertise in functional genomics (e.g., RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, whole genome, etc.).

Practical experience with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark) and tools like Nextflow, Snakemake, Airflow, Luigi, or WDL.

Documented contributions (e.g., publications) in genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, or related fields.

Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Broad technical ability and flexibility to contribute across engineering infrastructure.

Experience with bioinformatics tools such as BLAST, HMMER, Bowtie2, STAR, Kallisto, STARsolo, DESeq2, SAMtools, GATK, AlphaFold, Biopython.

Familiarity with large-scale genomic data (especially NGS), and contributions to open-source bioinformatics or data projects.

Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Full-time

Job function Science, Engineering, and Research

Industries Biotechnology Research and Software Development

Benefits

Medical insurance

401(k)

Pension plan

Paid maternity leave

Paid paternity leave

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