Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

Waters is a global leader in life sciences, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, Waters' innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across biology, chemistry, and physics. Waters collaborates with analytical laboratories around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, assure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combatting growing antibiotic resistance.

About the role

Waters Advanced Diagnostics business is seeking a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist to join a highly multi-disciplinary team developing new infectious disease diagnostic technologies. This individual will develop new methods and tools for data analysis and interpretation, including translating data into clinically actionable decision algorithms to support customers and patients. The role requires strong communication skills and the ability to translate highly technical information into meaningful insights.

Responsibilities

• Innovate, develop, train, and validate automated algorithms to translate extensive microbiological datasets into clinically actionable decisions.
• Collaborate to develop descriptive models and metrics from instrument platform data to enable exploratory data analysis and decision algorithm training.
• Support project team activities by developing and maintaining algorithm and data analysis pipelines that collect, process, analyze, and display experimental data.
• Collaborate with clinical and project teams to plan and analyze studies, experiments, and surveys; use statistics fundamentals to support and facilitate strategic decision-making.
• Program, document, and validate software code to execute data handling tasks, perform data analysis, and produce data visualization results.
• Assist teams with identifying design risks and work to implement process improvement initiatives as a member of the R&D systems engineering and bioinformatics team.
• Serve as a statistics and informatics subject-matter expert, mentor, and teacher to cross-functional teams.
• Present analyses and interpretations to internal and external customers.
• Provide data analysis deliverables for projects to meet schedules and goals.
• Review and/or prepare formal written reports/documents for distribution within and outside the department.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Bioinformatics, Statistics, or a related field is required.
• Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Bioinformatics, Statistics, or a related field preferred.
• 3+ years of equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with Python, R, or similar data scripting/programming language is required.
• Demonstrated database management skills and familiarity with SQL required.
• Strong communication skills and ability to discuss data, modeling, and analysis with technical and non-technical audiences.
• A high degree of professionalism, customer focus, and organizational skills is required.
• Self-motivated learner.

Qualifications

• Prior experience working within a regulated device or healthcare industry is preferred.
• Coursework or experience in statistics fundamentals.
• Ability to interpret project-level requirements and develop programming specifications, as appropriate.
• Experience with software production and test management tools.
• Demonstrable scientific experimental design and data science experience preferred.
• Clear understanding of fundamentals of biological sciences: specifically, biology or biochemistry experience.
• Knowledge in clinical microbiology is a plus.

Schedule

For most roles, a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week is required to maintain culture and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance.

Pay

Salary range: $95,900.00 – $153,400.00 USD annually.