Informatics Scientist

Job ID: 731339036
Job date: 2018-06-17
End Date: 2018-08-16

Company : Arc Bio 

Country : United States 

Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
Some mission critical team goals you’d be responsible for would include: As a member of our Informatics and Product Development team, you’ll lead the analyses for assay development and inform on experimental design to overcome product bottlenecks and discover new paths as part of a highly diverse team of bioinformaticians, molecular biologists, and statisticians.

  • Design, implement, and support statistical analyses at scale for use in infectious disease diagnostics
  • Develop software pipelines to analyze copious amounts of 'omics data and identify opportunities to improve product design with applications in pathogen detection and microbiome wellness
  • Collaborate with the team to support and innovate on metagenomics, infectious disease, and wellness research development
  • Learn and build new models/algorithms on your own as well as applying existing statistical, data mining, and annotation paradigms in unique ways on ‘omic datasets.
  • Excite stakeholders and decision-makers about your progress
Required Experience:

We are a small team, all wearing many hats. Research and development will be at the core of your work, with flexibility to help on presentations, patents, external collaborations, and many other exciting business pillars. To contribute most effectively, you would have the following experience:

  • Ph.D./M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Engineering, Genomics or related field with 2+/5+ years industry experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant R/Python development experience.
  • Bioinformatics experience in pipeline development and deployment, next-generation sequencing data management and analysis, or high-volume biological data management and analysis.
  • Be hypothesis driven with a strong understanding of complex scientific and engineering problems.
  • Have a solid knowledge of the biology underlying the analyses.
  • Possess clear communication skills.
Preferred/Desired Qualifications:
  • Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, R, C/C++, Java, Bash)
  • Solid Unix/Linux foundation.
  • Experience with database design or architecture is a plus, but certainly not required. Anything you don’t know, we can teach you.


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Additional Info:
At Arc Bio, we are building novel molecular next-generation sequencing and computational technologies that will revolutionize numerous fields ranging from pathogen identification to human forensics. Our biological data is key to both testing critical hypotheses to improve patient outcomes, and helping inform and power future healthcare decisions. Our Informatics and Product Development team is responsible for exploring our unique datasets and analyzing which features contribute to the overall success of our products to support our current company goals and guide the product decision-making process.

Contract Research Organization. Cytotoxicity and deconvolution microscopy services, specializing in nanomaterials. Primary goal is to help solve some of the world's greatest problems by producing results that bring technologies closer to the public. Enable companies to advance or sell their small molecules, nanomaterials, biofilms, etc.

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