Job Title: Bioinformatics Engineer Job Location: Foster City, CA Job Duration: 12 months Bioinformatics Engineer — T2T Genome Assembly (Non model Organisms) Genome Assembly (PacBio HiFi / ONT) This is a 12 month contract Bioinformatics Engineer role to deliver telomere to telomere (T2T) reference genomes for non-model organisms by building and operating long read assembly and curation pipelines using PacBio HiFi and/or Oxford Nanopore, with complementary data (Hi C/Omni C, Strand seq, optical maps, short reads) as needed. You will partner with wet lab and computational teams to troubleshoot complex genomes (polyploidy, high heterozygosity, repeats) and package results for internal and external release. Key Responsibilities •Plan assembly approaches for non-model organisms (data QC, genome profiling, contamination screening, coverage targets) and advise sequencing strategy. •Run and iterate long read assemblies and consensus refinement (e.g., hifiasm/Verkko/Flye/Canu; polishing as ...