Bioinformatics Application Scientist, NGS

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $125k - $141k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

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Twist Bioscience

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2013

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Logistics

Twist Bioscience is a biotechnology company that develops a proprietary semiconductor-based synthetic DNA manufacturing process. This innovative platform enables miniaturization of chemistry necessary for DNA synthesis, providing significant time and cost savings for customers. Twist offers a range of DNA-based products including gene synthesis, variant libraries, and next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions. The company supports research across areas such as cancer research, infectious disease, and drug discovery, leveraging its capabilities to drive groundbreaking biological innovations. With a robust suite of tools and services, Twist Bioscience is at the forefront of advancing research in genomics, antibody discovery, and synthetic biology.

📋 Description

• Serve as a customer-facing technical application scientist and liaison between customers and Twist Bioscience • Support pre-sales and post-sales activities and market development for Twist’s NGS target enrichment portfolio • Explain scientific and technical challenges and solutions using custom NGS panels • Design and support custom NGS panels using an existing design workflow • Provide bioinformatics support for NGS data analysis, troubleshooting, proof-of-concept experiments, and pipeline questions • Support sales teams in technical discussions, presentations, and customer meetings • Provide technical guidance on experiments involving Twist products • Monitor genomic research and field advancements • Liaise with customers, Sales, Product Management, R&D, and Production • Develop customer collaborations and provide customer-requirement feedback to Product Marketing • Travel locally and regionally, approximately 10% of the time • Comply with applicable QMS/ISMS standards and regulatory and customer requirements

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in Bioinformatics, Genetics, Molecular Biology, or related field with 2+ years biotech/commercial experience in Genomics, OR BS/MS in one of these fields with 7+ years biotech/commercial experience in Genomics • Strong technical knowledge of NGS applications and bioinformatics required for NGS data analysis, including Whole Exome Sequencing, RNA-seq, and Methylation • Knowledge and experience using BWA, GATK, IGV, UCSC, SAMtools, Picard, and bedtools • Experience working in a Linux environment and with command line applications • Ability to work in a collaborative team environment • High attention to detail and strong work ethic • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Follow regulatory and ISO 13485 requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity • Generous benefits package • Remote work arrangement • Travel requirements of up to 10%