Rapidly Growing Life Sciences Technology Company
Ultima Genomics is a rapidly growing company that is developing ground-breaking genomics technologies. Our mission is to continuously drive the scale of genomic information to enable unprecedented advances in biology and improvements in human health. We have developed a foundational new approach to sequencing at scale that overcomes limitations due to the high costs of current technologies. We are well-funded and have raised approximately $600 million from global top-tier investors. Our team brings together unique and diverse expertise across multiple disciplines, from healthcare and life sciences, to engineering, to technology and software and beyond. We are a collaborative group, including successful entrepreneurs, chemists, hardware and software engineers, genomics and biotechnology experts, molecular and computational biologists, software and algorithm experts, and operations and commercial leaders. Join us to develop and commercialize technologies that unleash the power of genomics at scale and empower the future of human health.
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software and Algorithm Engineer to join our team!
As a Senior Software and Algorithm Engineer you will help us with implementing innovative bioinformatics algorithms and extracting more insights from the data our product generates.
How You’ll Contribute
- Participate in the architecture and software design of bioinformatics solutions
- Implement bioinformatic algorithms in an efficient, reusable and manageable C/C++ code
- Learn in-depth the required algorithms, analyze their complexity and find/invent ways to implement them in the most efficient way possible
- Work on existing and on new pipeline infrastructures, both on-prem and at cloud environments
- Manage performance tuning, integrations, testing and bug fixing
Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
- MS degree or other advanced studies in above fields is a plus
- 5+ years of experience working as a senior software engineer
- 5+ years of experience working with C/C++
- Experience in implementing analytical algorithms in C/C++, similar language or lower-level code.
- Experience with bioinformatics algorithms is a plus
- Familiarity with other programing languages: Python, Java, R, Rust
- Familiarity with public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), Containers (docker) and Orchestrators (K8S)
- Knowledge of workflow management systems (e.g., Prefect, Airflow, Luigi)
- Familiarity with pipeline languages such as WDL, Nextflow or Snakemake is a plus
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Ultima Genomics is hiring a Senior Software and Algorithm Engineer
About company
Ultima Genomics is revolutionizing the genomics industry with its new sequencing architecture. The company is dedicated to continuously driving the scale of omics information to enable unprecedented advances in biology and improvements in human health.
At Ultima Genomics, the mission is to reduce the cost of sequencing and increase accessibility, enabling data-driven healthcare and transformative biological research. Their innovative UG200 Series platform offers greater capacity, flexibility, and efficiency, with outputs of 20B, 10B, and 5B wafer reads, enabling more than 60,000 genomes per year on the UG200 Ultra.
The company supports a broad range of applications including whole genome sequencing, oncology, single-cell sequencing, proteomics, and methylation profiling. Ultima’s technology integrates seamlessly with existing lab automation and delivers improved variant calling accuracy and coverage uniformity across complex regions of the genome.