Bioinformatician

Institution Overview

When you join the UMass Chan Medical School team, you join us in advancing together to improve the health and well-being of our diverse communities throughout Massachusetts and across the US and the world. Together, we lead in education, research, health care delivery, and public service. Your life’s work is more than a career. It’s an expression of your passion, intellect, skill, and drive.

UMass Chan's commitment to excellence, innovation, competitive benefits, and work-life integration will allow you to build a professionally rewarding career as we work together to better or improve the health of people around the globe.

Bioinformatician - Open Rank

Job Number:

Category: Research

Location: Worcester, MA

Shift: Day

Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt

Business Unit: UMass Chan Medical School

Department: School - Molecular Cell & Cancer Biology - W495000

Job Type: Full-Time

Union Code: Non Union Position
-W60
- Non Unit Professional

Num. Openings: 1

Post Date: Feb. 19, 2026

Work Location: Hybrid

Salary Minimum: USD $50,000.00/Yr.

Salary Maximum: USD $/Yr.

Under the direction of a member of the faculty, the Bioinformatician is responsible for the design, development, evaluation and iterative modification of a technical infrastructure to expedite the quantitative evaluation of data resulting from studies that are laboratory based. The position will entail the establishment and maintenance of applicable in-house bioinformatics resources and interaction with individual lab members on customized research projects, as well independent projects that are the solely computational.

This is an open-rank posting (there are 4 levels of Bioinformatician) - candidates will be hired into the level commensurate with their experience.

• Establish general bioinformatics resources for day-to-day use by members of the laboratory
• In collaboration with a faculty member, generate customized programming solutions to improve user interaction with available bioinformatics resources
• Assist in the implementation of programs for microarray analysis, high-throughput sequencing data analysis, cis regulatory motif identification, and multi-genome protein motif searches
• Local establishment and customization of model organism genomic databases and tools for batch sequence analysis utilizing these resources
• Interpret and present study results in support of laboratory members
• Provide tabular and written summaries of approaches and analyses in a form suitable for inclusion in manuscripts or grant applications, as well as media for presentation at scientific meetings
• Develop and implement custom bioinformatics programming solutions in collaboration with lab as necessary
• Coordinate and collaborate with other research computing expertise at the Medical School as necessary
• Participate in conference calls and data management meetings as needed
• Perform other duties as required.

• Implement and adapt programs for microarray analysis, high-throughput sequencing data analysis, cis regulatory motif identification, and multi-genome protein motif searches.
• Independently develop, implement and maintain custom designed computational solutions relevant for ongoing lab-based projects.
• Independently develop, implement and maintain computational methods for meta-analysis of data generated in the lab as well as publicly available data.
• Independently execute a scientific computational project (e.g. a project that can result in a first author publication)

• Design and implement reusable bioinformatics analysis pipelines for processing next-generation sequencing, microarray, genomics, proteomics and chemogenomics data.
• Integrate computational methods/pipelines with high performance computing clusters.
• Collaborate closely with PIs and their lab members on research projects including defining the scope of the collaboration, researching on the scientific topics, and implementing the appropriate bioinformatics solutions that meet timelines.
• Participate in the oral presentation of all project findings and abstracts including participation in periodic project status meetings and presentation of final project deliverables.
• Develop rapid prototypes and custom scripts for one-off type of analysis requests.
• Develop novel algorithms and integrated data visualization applications when existing software packages are not available or adequate.
• Properly document the procedures used in computational analysis and provide summary report of results suitable for inclusion in manuscript and grant applications.
• Local establishment and customization of genomic, proteomics databases and provide batch analysis utilities that make use of these resources.
• Develop custom databases and web portals for managing raw and processed experimental data.
• Provide bioinformatics training and workshops for analysis pipelines and in-house developed software applications.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other bioinformaticians, biostatisticians, information…