Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Bioinformatics Engineer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

75K–82K
Partially · Boston, Massachusetts
Posted July 28, 2026
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Overview

Own software solutions for displaying and manipulating biological data while assisting faculty and research staff with genomic transcriptomic proteomic microarray studies. Located in Boston and surrounding communities, Dana-Farber leads life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. Create an inclusive environment promoting public health among high risk underserved populations. Design and develop software databases interfaces for analyzing biological data. Improve data mining and management techniques through biology knowledge. Collaborate with lab researchers to develop high throughput data processing. Add new software to in house systems. Direct DNA RNA protein sequence database searches and computational analysis. Provide technical support and help guide implementation maintenance bioinformatics software. Diagnose and fix software issues across life science teams. Foster innovation inclusivity compassionate environment.

What You'll Do8

  • 1Design and develop software databases interfaces for analyzing biological data
  • 2Apply biology knowledge to improve data mining and management techniques
  • 3Collaborate with laboratory researchers to develop high throughput data processing and analysis capability
  • 4Add new software to in house systems from external sources
  • 5Direct DNA RNA protein sequence database searches and computational analysis of resulting data
  • 6Provide direct technical and scientific customer support and guide implementation maintenance improvements
  • 7Work with life science team to diagnose and fix software issues
  • 8Lead and guide bioinformatics initiatives within the institute

Requirements5

  • 15+ years building ETL pipelines with Spark and Airflow
  • 25+ years building ETL pipelines with Python AWS React Kubernetes
  • 33-5 seasons experience
  • 4CPC Card certification
  • 5BCBA certification

Salary Insight

$75 - $82k per year

Location

Typepartially
LocationBoston, Massachusetts

Required Skills

software developmentdatabase designbioinformatics data analysisgenomic analysistranscriptomic analysisproteomic analysismicroarray analysishigh‑throughput data processingDNA sequence searchRNA sequence searchprotein sequence searchtechnical support
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