Sr. Bioinformatics Scientist

Job Description:
The successful candidate will work closely with a team of software developers, bioinformatics scientists, molecular biologists, and immunologists in the exciting and cutting edge field of single-cell genomics and proteomics. She or he will develop, deploy, and support complex data analysis pipelines that enable research, new technology development, and product development. Success requires a firm grounding in software engineering, knowledge of bioinformatics methods, ability to work successfully in teams, and a strong focus on making our customers successful.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contribute to cross-functional teams and work directly with scientists and engineers to understand computational and analytic needs and to insure that insightful results are produced that help achieve departmental research goals.
• Develop and support Python software applications
• Develop, test, deploy, automate, and support NGS analysis pipelines.
• Contribute to end user applications that support visualization and statistical analysis.
• Troubleshoot problems, address issues, and answer questions from internal users, collaborators, and customers
• Work directly with customers on fixes and workarounds
• Benchmark and evaluate pipeline performance, suggest and implement improvements
• Deploy computationally efficient cloud-based technologies to maximize pipeline efficiency.
• Insure that good software engineering practices are followed in all development activities.
• Construct and manage databases. Interact with statisticians, data scientists, engineers and biologists to determine requirements and functionality.

Minimum Qualification:

Education and Experience:

• Minimum M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Molecular Biology or a related field with 3+ years Bioinformatics analysis experience
• Minimum of 3 years' experience with Python programming and proficiency in data analysis using Python and R.
• Experience implementing NGS data analysis pipelines preferably in a production context.
• Team-oriented
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Able to prioritize and deliver results with a high emphasis on quality, technical rigor, and attention to detail

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with advanced data science techniques especially as applied to RNA or Protein expression data.
• Experience with Linux, shell (e.g. Bash) scripting
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and SQL language
• Experience with any of the following: Agile software development, git, AWS, Seven Bridges, Arvados, Matlab, Javascript, React-JS

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Requeriments :

• M.Sc. or higher Degree in Bioinformatics
• M.Sc. or higher Degree in computational biology

Skills :

• Bioinformatics
• JavaScript
• Lunix/Unix
• Next Generation Sequencing
• Programing in Python
• Programming in Matlab
• Programming in R
• SQL

Areas :

• Bioinformatics

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Additional Info:
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