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Senior Bioinformatician, Bioinformatics and Data Team | Averna Therapeutics Averna Therapeutics
About Us Our Approach Our Team News Careers Job Description Senior Bioinformatician, Bioinformatics and Data Team Israel About Averna Averna Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing genomic medicines for a broad range of diseases. Our technology leverages naturally occurring genetic elements found in safe harbor loci in nature to deliver new genes via mRNA and lipid nanoparticles that achieve precise, safe, and durable insertion of entire therapeutic genes. Backed by an expert team and experienced investors, we are poised to transform the landscape of genomic medicine, offering treatments that can be re-dosed and titrated with curative intent to bring hope to patients suffering from genetic diseases, cancer, and autoimmune conditions. Role Description: Averna Therapeutics is seeking a highly motivated Senior Bioinformatician to lead the development and scaling of bioinformatics pipelines, cloud-native computational infrastructure, and genomic analysis workflows supporting our therapeutic platform. This role sits at the intersection of computational biology, software engineering, and cloud infrastructure. The Sr. Bioinformatician will work closely with scientists, engineers, and cross-functional teams to build production-grade systems that enable high-throughput sequencing analysis, construct characterization, genomic integration analysis, and therapeutic design workflows. Key
Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain scalable bioinformatics pipelines for NGS and long-read sequencing data analysis. Develop and optimize robust computational workflows supporting genomic characterization, construct design, insertion-site analysis, and related platform applications. Maintain cloud-native solutions for large-scale genomic data processing and workflow orchestration across research and platform teams. Implement best practices in software engineering, including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, version control, and workflow monitoring. Maintain and improve secure, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure supporting bioinformatics and data science operations. Collaborate cross-functionally with molecular biology, platform, data science, and software engineering teams to enable rapid experimental iteration and data-driven decision making. Troubleshoot pipeline and infrastructure issues in production environments and drive continuous improvements in performance, scalability, and usability. Contribute to technical architecture decisions, coding standards, and engineering best practices across the organization. Mentor junior team members and help foster a strong engineering and computational biology culture.