Director, Bioinformatics

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Job date: 2017-07-21
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Company : Flagship Pioneering 

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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:

  • 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.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 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.


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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.

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