Senior Engineer, Bioinformatics

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Life Sciences team, you'll build biology software that our own scientists and the wider research community can depend on, and you'll be one of the main people representing that work to computational biologists outside Anthropic.

• Design, build, and maintain biology software in genomics and structural biology (libraries, command-line tools, pipelines, datasets, and benchmarks) for use by researchers and AI…
• Own the path from research code to public release, including testing, validation against reference data and established tools, benchmarking, documentation, and packaging, and…
• Maintain what we release: triage issues, review outside contributions, and manage breaking changes
• Represent the team in the biology community through conferences, workshops, tutorials, and direct work with researchers and maintainers, and turn what you learn about their needs…
• Partner with the team's computational and experimental scientists to turn research code into well-tested, reusable software

What they're looking for

• Have built, released, and maintained biology software that researchers outside your own group use, with evidence of adoption you can point to (for example public repositories…
• Have deep working expertise in genomics or structural biology, including the data types, file formats, standard tools, and common failure modes of at least one of these fields
• Are proficient in Python and comfortable working with large datasets in Linux and cloud or cluster computing environments
• Practice rigorous testing and release engineering: unit and integration tests, continuous integration, validation against reference data, packaging, and versioning
• Use AI coding tools as a central part of how you build software, and can show how you verify the correctness and performance of code you did not write by hand

Tech stack

• Python
• Rust
• C++