Bioinformatics Scientist at Color

Color is a health technology company that makes population-scale healthcare programs accessible, convenient, and cost-effective for everyone.  We have raised $100 million in Series E funding, bringing our valuation to $4.6 billion and our total raised amount to $378 million. We work with governments, public health institutions, employers, and national health initiatives around the world to provide the tools for preventive health and infectious disease management, including testing, vaccinations, and other services.
Apply to join Color and do the most meaningful work of your career. If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified but are up for the challenge - we want you to apply!
What we offer:
💰 Competitive salary
✨  Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits. Including employer HSA contributions.
📈  401k match
📝 Monthly lunch, phone, and wifi stipend for remote employees
🏝 Generous vacation policy, paid holidays, and company-wide recharge days
💌  Monthly  stipend to spend on your well being
🍼  Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
🧬 Four complimentary clinical-grade genetic testing kits for you and your family
The Bioinformatics team at Color is composed of folks with diverse previous experience in next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, genomics, big data, cloud computing and machine learning. We are responsible for building the clinical NGS analysis pipeline, identifying novel classes of genomic variation, building tools for genomic interpretation and collaborating with R&D lab scientists to bring new products to market. As Color expands our genomics platform in new and exciting directions, we are continuing to bring on top talent in bioinformatics.
We are seeking a strong scientist with deep experience in genetics, bioinformatics, and NGS technology to grow this team. Ideal candidates will bring expertise, humility and a strong intellectual curiosity to our overall mission of democratizing access to genetic information.
How You’ll Contribute:
Generate and pursue novel ideas for genetic testing.Introduce and incorporate emerging computational methodologies in our bioinformatics codebase. Collaborate with laboratory scientists and data scientists to translate R&D work to clinical production analyses.Act as domain expert both for internal and external collaborations.Assist in troubleshooting with our high-throughput clinical laboratory.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:
You have 5+ years of experience as a bioinformatics scientist or computational biologist (or equivalent role). You are intimately familiar with standard bioinformatics tools (BWA, GATK, DeepVariant, etc.) and have experience working with advanced bioinformatics concepts such as graph alignment, genotyping of complex haplotypes, etc.Intermediate proficiency in Python is required. You maintain a high bar for quality of code and work aggressively to eliminate unnecessary duplication and awkward workarounds.You understand how to evaluate scientific publications/presentations in terms of underlying challenges and potential impact.You effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical collaborators: you identify core challenges in complex situations, explain trade offs, and incorporate feedback to make decisions using code reviews, docs, wikis, meetings, and other channels as needed.
Nice to Have:
You have analyzed large sequencing datasets to identify variants across the full spectrum of size and complexity (SNV/indel, CNV, inversions, mobile element insertions, haplotypes).You are familiar with a variety of sequencing platforms: short-read SBS, linked-read, long-read, optical mapping, etc.You have experience shipping code in a clinical production environment (GitHub).You are familiar with high performance and distributed computing systems (AWS, GCP).You have experience running pipelines using workflow engines such as Toil and workflow languages such as CWL or WDL.You have successfully employed relevant concepts from data science (machine learning, imputation, etc.) on biological data.You are familiar with CAP and CLIA guidelines.You understand the key concepts in pharmacogenomics.
Possible Projects To Contribute To:
Define our next clinical product and generate proof-of-concept data.Adopt algorithms that enable extracting additional actionable clinical insights from sequencing data.Drive our scientific progress as a domain expert, with internal and external collaborators.Create a basic bioinformatics pipeline to evaluate a novel sequencing platform.
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Color is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. Color prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Color conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities in our recruitment process.
Mandatory Vaccination Policy Disclosure
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement: Color requires anyone working onsite or visiting Color’s offices to confirm they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless a medical or religious accommodation is timely requested and approved.  Please reach out if you have questions or concerns about this policy and how it may apply to your candidacy for a role with Color.