Senior Bioinformatics Programmer
NYU Langone Health · New York, NY
$84,578–$105,040from the description
Jul 28, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A clinical bioinformatics role at NYU Langone Health's Molecular Pathology Lab, focused on building and maintaining NGS-based computational pipelines for cancer genomics and precision medicine diagnostics. The position involves developing Nextflow workflows, analyzing patient genomic/epigenomic/transcriptomic data, and collaborating with pathologists and clinicians to interpret variant calls. Suited to someone with hands-on bioinformatics programming experience in a clinical or research genomics setting.
Mid level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Master's required · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 85 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer occupations, all other). range 20–130
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $129,701 (middle half $84,324–$174,781). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is onsite-first: fully remote is explicitly unavailable; hybrid may be offered after 6 months based on performance.
The minimum qualification states 'M.Sc. plus a minimum of 3 years' experience', making a Master's degree a hard gate. Equivalent experience is not offered as a substitute.
SOC classification is a judgement call: the role is primarily bioinformatics pipeline development (closer to software development, 15-1252) but sits in a clinical/scientific domain not cleanly covered by standard developer codes. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the best fit for a specialized bioinformatics programmer role; 15-1252 is the runner-up.
Django appears in the Minimum Qualifications list alongside Nextflow and containers, making it a hard gate despite being an unusual requirement for a bioinformatics role — it likely reflects web-tool development responsibilities mentioned under Preferred.
Cloud platform experience (GCP/AWS) and web-development skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript) are listed under Preferred Qualifications only.
The advertised title is 'Senior' but the minimum experience requirement is only 3 years post-M.Sc., which aligns more with a Mid-level band.
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