[Hiring] Field Applications Scientist @Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Role Description

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. is seeking a Field Applications Scientist, Bioinformatics, to partner closely with our Sales team and customers. You’ll provide pre- and post-sales technical expertise across our sequencing platforms and software—helping researchers design experiments, analyze data, and achieve successful outcomes while strengthening long-term relationships.

This is a field-based role supporting customers across the Northeast region. Candidates should reside within the territory, within New England/ NY / NJ/ PA to support frequent customer engagement and regional travel. The role requires frequent local customer visits and occasional overnight travel, up to approximately 40%, and may include technical support for adjacent territories as business needs require.

What you’ll do

• Partner with Sales to deliver high-quality technical consultations across the sales cycle; provide back-up technical support to adjacent territories.
• Deliver technical presentations, seminars, trainings, and on-site engagements at key accounts and scientific conferences.
• Guide customers on experimental design, software usage, analysis workflows, and best practices for ONT technologies.
• Manage key customer relationships from a technical perspective to ensure successful adoption and outcomes.
• Document and track customer interactions, inquiries, and actions in the CRM.
• Monitor competitive technologies and market trends; share actionable insights with commercial and product teams.

Qualifications

• Education: PhD in Life Sciences (or equivalent experience in a commercial, customer-facing scientific role).
• Experience: Prior field applications/technical support experience; hands-on experimental design and genomic data analysis (e.g., whole-genome and transcriptome). Long-read sequencing experience is a plus.
• Domain knowledge: Strong foundation in genetics, genomics, molecular biology, cell biology, bioinformatics or related disciplines.
• Data & analysis: Background working with large NGS datasets and pipelines such as genome assembly/annotation, variant calling, structural variants, transcriptomics, or phylogenetics.
• Programming & platforms: Proficiency in one or more of Python, R, Perl; comfortable in UNIX environments. Experience in cloud computing platforms such as AWS. Proven experience in high performance compute clusters.

Requirements

• Field-based role with frequent local customer visits and occasional overnight travel (up to ~40%).

Benefits

• The salary for this role is between $97,479 and $121,849, reflecting the skills and experience of the candidate.
• Certain roles within ONT are eligible for annual bonus and stock, allocated based on individual performance.
• Employees based in the US have the option to choose healthcare benefits.
• Participation in the company 401(k) plan and company match.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Commuter benefits.

Company Description

Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.