New comment by clmcleod in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Sr. Staff or Principal Software Engineer, Rust Genomics Infrastructure | Memphis, TN | ONSITE (2x/week onsite) or REMOTE | $125,840 - $238,160 | https://www.stjude.org/

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is hiring Rust software engineers to rebuild the genomics ecosystem in Rust. We work at the intersection of computer science and genomics, and we're trying to build a better foundation upon which genomics can be done using Rust. The primary project we’re working on is a bioinformatics workflow execution engine for local, HPC, and Cloud called Sprocket (https://github.com/stjude-rust-labs/sprocket). You can also check out the other projects we have going on at https://github.com/stjude-rust-labs.

NOTE that prior experience in bioinformatics or biology is NOT required for any of the positions below. You must be interested in learning though! If you'd like to get a sense of what you'd be learning, check out the guide we wrote to teach software engineers about genomics here: https://learngenomics.dev.

* Sr. Staff or Principal Software Engineer: https://talent.stjude.org/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Staff-Pri...

With any questions, email me at [email protected]. Please do not email me your application directly—be sure to submit it through the job portal.