Sr. Bioinformatics & ML Scientist
About Us
Nomic was founded with a simple but ambitious goal: to make biology easier to measure. We’ve developed nELISA, the world’s highest throughput proteomic platform, by tackling some of the toughest challenges in protein profiling through a combination of DNA nanotechnology, high-dimensional flow cytometry, lab automation, and machine learning.
Since spinning out of McGill University, we’ve partnered with dozens of top-tier drug discovery groups, including 6 of the top 10 pharma companies, and have profiled over 60 million proteins from more than 400,000 samples to date.
Since closing a $42M Series B round, we recently scaled up the platform to meet rapidly growing demand. You can read more about this on our website here. Our state-of-the-art facility is capable of profiling over 2.5 million samples a year, generating 500 million protein assays.
We’re a diverse team of engineers, scientists, and problem-solvers who thrive on breaking down difficult challenges using first principles thinking, and we leverage the latest scientific and technological breakthroughs to drive our mission forward.
About the Role
As our Staff-level Bioinformatics & ML Scientist, you will elevate Nomic’s position as the leader in large-scale proteomics. Your work will set new standards for how proteomic and multi-omics data are analyzed, interpreted, and applied, helping our customers move from raw data to scientific breakthroughs. By enabling new decision-support models, building and expanding our reference datasets, and sharing thought leadership with the broader community, you will help define what’s possible for the field and accelerate discoveries across drug development and biomarker research. You will also ensure Nomic’s customer collaborations deliver high-impact insights and become the gold standard for industry and academia.
You will join a cross-functional team and build on existing infrastructure to develop the analysis pipelines, ML models, and product-facing workflows that make proteomic data actionable for customers. Your work will shape the applications layer in the Nomic Portal and support key use cases such as target discovery, perturbation analysis, and translational research. This is a player-coach position, you will mentor and collaborate closely with our engineering, product and data teams as our capabilities grow.
What You’ll Be Doing
Bioinformatics, ML, and Multi-omics Analysis
Build and improve pipelines for proteomic and transcriptomic data: QC, normalization, batch correction, feature engineering, and integration.
Develop ML models and analytical methods for target discovery, perturbation and functional genomics analysis, and phenotype classification.
Prototype ML-driven approaches and work with engineering teams to productionize them.
Scientific Interpretation & Applications Development
Interpret multi-omics datasets and connect data patterns to underlying biology.
Support analyses involving perturbation screens or functional genomics methods.
Define and translate customer analysis needs into specific Portal features and workflows.
Customer-Facing Scientific Insights
Support customer projects with exploratory and confirmatory analyses.
Identify and communicate the insights most relevant to customer decisions.
Present data clearly and rigorously in sharable notebooks, presentations, and discussions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Thought Leadership
Work with product, commercial, and scientific teams to define high-impact use cases.
Contribute to scientific content that strengthens Nomic’s leadership.
What We’re Looking For
PhD (or equivalent experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, ML, or a related quantitative field.)
Direct experience analyzing proteomics and transcriptomics datasets
Experience working with data from target discovery, perturbation, or functional genomics workflows.
5+ years of hands-on experience building bioinformatics or ML pipelines in Python and/or R.
Comfortable staying hands-on with coding and analysis while mentoring others.
Strong statistical and data-wrangling skills, including QC and normalization.
Familiarity with reproducibility and collaborative coding practices.
Experience collaborating with engineers, scientists, or product teams.
Experience contributing to scientific publications or technical content.
Experience with customer-facing scientific work is ideal.
Understanding of how pharma and biotech teams evaluate biological data is ideal.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.