u/BenchToStartup

Curious what people in bioinformatics are seeing on the ground. I've been tracking life sciences job postings and noticed something interesting- Data & AI roles are now nearly tied with Research & Discovery positions in terms of hiring volume. A year ago that gap was much wider.

Are you seeing this shift in your own job search or at your institution? Is this computational roles being added alongside wet lab, or actually replacing traditional R&D positions?

I analyzed 6,677 life sciences job postings from 500+ organizations worldwide (June 22–29). Here are a few hiring trends that surprised me:

• Data & AI hiring (10.4%) nearly matched Research & Discovery (10.7%) this week
• Business Development & Strategy hiring increased 20% week-over-week - the largest jump across all job functions
• Commercial, Sales & Marketing remained the largest hiring function (17.6%)
• Cardiovascular & Metabolic was the most active therapeutic area for the third consecutive week

Top hiring companies: Eurofins, AbbVie, Abbott Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson, and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

I compile these trends weekly by analyzing publicly posted jobs across 500+ life sciences organizations. Happy to answer questions about methodology or dig into a specific company, function, or therapeutic area.

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