Job Description:
The Director, Bioinformatics will be a key member of Inari’s expanding leadership team and will play a critical role in shaping the company’s strategic direction. The ideal candidate will be a recognized leader in crop data analytics as evidenced by publications in top tier journals, presentations at international meetings and a track record of transformational contributions to the field. The ability to successfully lead, recruit and cultivate a high achieving team that transforms data into relevant insights is critical to success in this role. Key Responsibilities:
Additional Info:
Inari Agriculture (Inari) is a Flagship Pioneering Company. Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources and develops first-in-category life sciences companies. Since its launch in 2000, the firm has applied its hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster nearly 75 scientific ventures, resulting in $19 billion in aggregate value and 500+ issued patents. Since inception, Flagship has capitalized its growing portfolio with nearly $1 billion coming from $1.75 billion of aggregate investor capital committed. Inari is the latest Flagship Pioneering company in Agriculture. Co- founded with pre-eminent scientific leaders, Inari is developing a platform with unprecedented capabilities to accelerate the adoption of game changing solutions in agriculture.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
The Director, Bioinformatics will be a key member of Inari’s expanding leadership team and will play a critical role in shaping the company’s strategic direction. The ideal candidate will be a recognized leader in crop data analytics as evidenced by publications in top tier journals, presentations at international meetings and a track record of transformational contributions to the field. The ability to successfully lead, recruit and cultivate a high achieving team that transforms data into relevant insights is critical to success in this role. Key Responsibilities:
- Build and lead a world class team of computational biologists and data scientists
- Develop and execute a strategic plan to deliver novel algorithms and analytical techniques
- Collaborate with laboratory scientists and business teams to identify challenges, design experiments, and analyze data
- Partner with IT and other computational teams to turn your team’s cutting-edge science into robust and reproducible discovery and analysis pipelines
- Drive computational biology best practices, including adoption of cloud computing, development of reusable libraries, version control, automated testing, thorough documentation, and reproducible research.
- Ph.D. in a biological or bioinformatics discipline with 5+ years of work experience
- Proven track record and hands on experience defining and implementing computational solutions, including ability to program in languages suitable for scientific work or data science, such as R or Python.
- Demonstrated leadership of highly effective teams and projects
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially with respect to computational solutions to scientific problems and conclusions from complex data analysis.
- Ability to drive highly collaborative work and actively create new connections across our organization and outside the company.
- Plant genomics domain expertise
- Knowledge of plant biology
- Experience leading data / computational scientists in both technical and career development.
- Strong statistics and/or machine learning skills.
- Experience with scientific data visualization.
- Scientific programming skills in a high performance language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Scala, Julia, Go).
- Experience using high performance computing environments (clusters).
- Experience working with Amazon Web Services or other cloud stacks.
- Ability to rapidly evaluate the utility of new computational technologies.
- Experience teaching R or Python.
- Maintainer of at least one open source project, such as an R package (on CRAN, Bioconductor, or Github) or Python library.
Requeriments :
Skills :
- HPC
- Machine Learning
- Plant Biology
- Plant Genomics
- Programing in C
- Programing in C++
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in Java
- Programming in R
- Statistics
Areas :
Additional Info:
Inari Agriculture (Inari) is a Flagship Pioneering Company. Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources and develops first-in-category life sciences companies. Since its launch in 2000, the firm has applied its hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster nearly 75 scientific ventures, resulting in $19 billion in aggregate value and 500+ issued patents. Since inception, Flagship has capitalized its growing portfolio with nearly $1 billion coming from $1.75 billion of aggregate investor capital committed. Inari is the latest Flagship Pioneering company in Agriculture. Co- founded with pre-eminent scientific leaders, Inari is developing a platform with unprecedented capabilities to accelerate the adoption of game changing solutions in agriculture.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]