Senior & Staff Bioinformatics Scientist's

Senior & Staff Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina, hybrid or remote, based in Europe or South Africa. Applications go through Illumina's official Workday careers portal. The role is to design novel algorithms that advance genomic analysis at scale for Illumina's DRAGEN platform and Illumina Connected Analytics, targeting rare disease, oncology, population genomics, and precision medicine. Responsibilities include developing high-performance production software for genomic data analysis, building secondary analysis workflows (mapping, alignment, variant calling), and collaborating across software engineering, FPGA, clinical genomics, and product teams. Requires a Master's or PhD in bioinformatics, computer science, statistics or a related field, strong NGS bioinformatics and algorithm development experience, and proficiency in C/C++ or an equivalent high-performance language.