Senior Bioimage Scientist
About The Position
At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a purpose driven environment. This is what we call the Veracyte way – it’s about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions. Our Values: We Seek A Better Way: We innovate boldly, learn from our setbacks, and are resilient in our pursuit to transform cancer care We Make It Happen: We act with urgency, commit to quality, and bring fun to our hard work We Are Stronger Together: We collaborate openly, seek to understand, and celebrate our wins We Care Deeply: We embrace our differences, do the right thing, and encourage each other The Position: We are seeking a Senior Scientist to join the Discovery Research team as a Bioimage Scientist focused on tissue-based oncology diagnostics. This role sits at the interface of pathologists, biologists, and AI/ML teams, contributing directly to new assay development, DPAI tool development, biological interpretation, and diagnostic product advancement. This is a wet- and dry-lab role, responsible for developing, optimizing, and validating imaging assays and quantitative image analysis to link biological and clinical questions with interpretable image-derived metrics and features. Location: San Diego (Hybrid)
Requirements
- Ph.D. in biology, biomedical sciences, bioengineering, computational biology, or related field (oncology expertise preferred).
- ≥6 years postgraduate experience, with ≥3 years in regulated industry preferred.
- Proven expertise in tissue staining assays, IHC, imaging assay development, quantitative histopathology, bioimage quantification, slide annotation and TME phenotyping.
- Hands-on experience with image analysis platforms (ImageJ/FIJI, or similar), advanced quantification methods (Python, R, or similar), digital pathology annotation (QuPath, CaMic, Omero or similar) and analysis platforms (HALO, Visipharm, etc).
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in developing digital pathology AI solutions, in immune-oncology biology, and TME characterization strongly desired.
Responsibilities
- Lead conception, design, execution and analysis of tissue-based imaging assays (including H&E, IHC, special tissue stains, multiplex stains, spatial biology).
- Build image analysis workflows to extract interpretable, multi-scale morpho-quantitative biomarkers.
- Design workflow controls, stress tests, quantification and scoring strategies to establish robust methods that connect biological/clinical hypotheses (e.g., immune contexture, tumor aggressiveness, treatment response) with explainable image-based measurements.
- Work closely with pathologists to define annotation schemas, perform and oversee WSI annotation to generate high-quality datasets for DPAI algorithm development, model interpretation, etc.
- Partner with bioinformatics and AI/ML teams to design, develop, test, and refine quantitative image analysis and DPAI workflows, from image QC and annotation strategies to biomarker quantification and explainability.
- Drive image-based tumor phenotyping and quantitative analyses to characterize tumor, stromal, and immune cell populations, interactions and features.
- Provide cross-functional technical leadership and mentoring in bioimage analysis, slide management and annotation, and TME characterization.
- Guide operational deployment of workflows and analytical tools, including automation, scaling, SOP and validation design for CLIA/CAP regulated environments.
- Evaluate, benchmark, and integrate, as appropriate, commercial and open-source image analysis tools and AI models that enhance diagnostic and research capabilities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
