This was the career I wanted, but I'm not willing to work in academia. I actually have a biochem degree and 10 years of work experience as a software engineer.

This was the career I wanted, but I'm not willing to work in academia. I actually have a biochem degree and 10 years of work experience as a software engineer. The point should be rephrased : "We need cheap programmers in biology and biomedical research in San Diego and Boston to blindly obey senior cancer researchers with fat pockets, and we can't afford the market rate for a good programmer or data scientist in those two arguably very pricey locales, and we don't want to hire remote workers, even though the job is desk-based. Ideally they should be willing to be graduate students, that's easier on the budget."