Bioinformatics Software Engineer

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Title- Bioinformatics Software Engineer (Contractor)

Location- Foster City, California, USA, 94404

Duration- 6 months contract

Position Summary

• Seeking a highly motivated Bioinformatics Software Engineer to contribute to the development of a next-generation computational platform for antibody-based therapeutic design and assessment.
• This contractor role will focus on building scalable software infrastructure, automated scientific workflows, data management, and interactive visualization.
• The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in scientific software development, workflow orchestration, backend and web development, database design, and HPC/cloud computing.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, web-based interfaces for computational biophysics and antibody design workflows.
• Develop and optimize database schemas to manage scientific data, computational results, and associated metadata.
• Build and maintain FastAPI-based backend services and APIs supporting computational workflows.
• Develop and orchestrate automated scientific pipelines using tools such as Nextflow, containers, and SLURM.
• Build software connecting databases, computational pipelines, APIs, and interactive visualization tools.
• Use modern AI-assisted development and vibe-coding approaches to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on scientific applications.
• Ensure code quality through modular design, version control, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
• Support platform deployment and testing in HPC and cloud-based environments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Physics, or a related field with 0-3 years of relevant experience. PhD candidates are also welcome to apply.
• Strong proficiency in Python and scientific software development.
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI, SQL/NoSQL databases, and database design.
• Experience developing and orchestrating automated computational pipelines, preferably using Nextflow or similar workflow frameworks.
• Experience with HPC environments and workload schedulers such as SLURM.
• Strong front-end development and data visualization skills, such as React, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with Git, containerization technologies such as Docker, and modern software development practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills within multidisciplinary scientific teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with protein structure, antibody design, molecular modeling, or structure-based computational methods.
• Familiarity with molecular modeling or protein structure tools such as MOE, Schrödinger, or equivalent.
• Experience applying AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate scientific software development and prototyping.
• Knowledge of antibody developability or biologics discovery workflows.
• Prior experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry settings.

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