Helix

Biotechnology · Genomics & Genetic Testing
18Open roles5 posted in 30 days+1 this week
$179kMedian advertised pay$112k – $205k+9% vs market
58 daysTime to fillmedian of 7 closed rolesmarket: 38 days
Lately:+1 roles posted this week9 news stories in 90 daysFollow changes →

Facts

as of Nov 14, 2026

Helix delivers clinical genomic testing, population health programs, and the world's largest clinico-genomic database for research & discovery.

It is hiring: 18 open roles, 5 of them posted in the last 30 days.

Founded
2016
Open roles
18Alion job postings
Website
helix.com

As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 18 open roles at Helix. It was founded in 2016. The median pay stated in its open roles is $172k, across 18 postings that state pay.

Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake

Trust

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What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices

Hiring

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Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.

Backend is the largest family, 23 of open roles.

5Posted in 30 days28% of open roles are fresh
94%Remote roles17 of 18
1Roles in AI6% of open roles
1Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
4 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States4On site
Mexico4On site
Remote, from elsewhere17Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 17.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Helix58 days
Market, same roles38 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand62
Pay30
Your chance56
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 16 then, 0 now
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Backend23▼
Sales14▼
Customer Success14
Industrial Engineering14▲
Product9▲
AI/ML5▼
Newest roles
Senior Manager, Marketing Automations & Digital Experience Lead
$144k – $186k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
Pre-Analytical Supervisor
$94k – $120k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Associate's Degree · San Diego
Senior/ Staff Bioinformatics Engineer, Clinical Applications
$162k – $220k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 9+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist, Clinical Applications
$146k – $196k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · PhD
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
English528%
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 62%Master's Degree 23%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 8%Associate's Degree 8%
Experience asked: 5.9 years on average, in 16 postings. 13 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Health insurance18100%
Home office1794%
Equity1478%
Parental leave1478%
Continuous learning422%
Flexible vacation policy422%
Contract type
Full-Time 18
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
View 18 jobsRoles matching my profile
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Pay

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What its postings pay, by level.

$179kMedianmarket estimate $165k
$112k – $205kTypical rangeUSD a year
$265kHighest paying roleHead of Pharmacogenomics (PGx)
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $165k
Junior3$120k$72k – $120k
Senior6$148k$98k – $172k
Staff+5$196k$196k – $220k
Head+3$246k$218k – $246k
$0$75k$150k$225k$300k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Footprint

Hiring in 1 city in 1 country.

1Cities
1Countries
San DiegoBusiest site
SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
San Diego United StatesNot classified2Field & Service, Industrial Engineering0%
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Tech stack

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Technologies named in job postings at Helix over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

52Technologies in use
14Postings analysed
91/100Stack modernityAI adopter
LanguagesPython 64%Go 36%TypeScript 36%JavaScript 21%
Frameworks & librariesNext.js 14%React.js 14%Vue.js 14%Dask 7%
Cloud & platformsAWS 50%Azure 29%GCP 29%OpenAI 14%
AI & MLClaude 21%Gemini 7%LLM 7%
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Full Helix tech stack52 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Milestones

2016
Founded
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press

Newsroom

1Hacker News storiesbest: 2 points
#308,914Web rankTranco top 1M
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