Associate Scientist 1, Bioinformatics

Job Description:
Within Amyris R&D, we are searching for a highly energetic, curious, and self-motivated scientist with a strong background in bioinformatics to join our Bioinformatics & Software Engineering team. Research at Amyris is a highly multidisciplinary effort that needs brilliant contributions from life sciences and engineering disciplines in order to take projects from concept to market. From hacking directly on DNA in the lab to full scale factory production, every aspect of our work is facilitated and accelerated by quantitative science and software & hardware automation. Bioinformatics & Software Engineering helps bench scientists design better microbial strains using genotype specification languages and high-level functional ontologies of parts and pathways; and helps model & learn from high-throughput, multivariate phenotype, NGS, and ‘omics data to rapidly drive the design-build-test-learn cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Iteratively develop computational algorithms, analysis and visualization tools to meet evolving scientific needs and to aid rapid data-driven decision making
• Maintain and extend genomics & sequencing codebase
• Work closely with bench scientists on genomics, sequencing, and DNA design/build pipeline

Qualifications:

• Strong coder in either R or Python
• B.S. in bioinformatics, or double major in biology & computer science
• Industrial programming experience, i.e. having written or maintained codebase using software best practices (e.g. unit tests) and distributed version control (e.g. git)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced yet intellectually rigorous environment
• Creativity, curiosity, willingness to learn, and passion

Experience with the following a plus:

• Experience in a microbiology, fermentation, or synthetic biology setting
• Knowledge of relational databases & SQL

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Requeriments :

• Technical Bachelor

Skills :

• Bioinformatics
• Microbiology
• Programing in Python
• Programing Skills
• Programming in R
• SQL
• Version Control

Areas :

• Bioinformatics

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Additional Info:
Amyris, a leader in industrial synthetic biology, uses its innovative bioscience solutions to achieve renewable products by converting plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules. Amyris’ molecules are used in wide range of specialty & performance chemicals, flavors & fragrances and in applications ranging from cosmetics to biofuels. Learn more at www.amyris.com.

As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Amyris is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Amyris complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

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