Bioinformatic Engineer

Job ID: 608351698
Job date: 2018-03-31
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Company : VIOME Inc 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
We are seeking an energetic individual for a mid level Bioinformatic Engineer position who can work as part of a team of Bioinformaticians at our San Diego, CA office.

The successful applicant will need to:

  • Quickly learn the structure of the existing software.
  • Run, monitor and troubleshoot existing Bioinformatic workflows.
  • Assist in the maintenance, development , optimization and scaling of pipelines and tools for NGS data analysis.
Job requirements:
  • Must be able to legally work in the US.
  • Candidates with a BS degree in Bioinformatics with several (3+) years of industry experience, or MS in Bioinformatics with 2+ years of industry experience.
  • 2+ years experience with Python Programing.
  • 2+ years experience working with AWS ecosystem (EC2, S3, Lambda).
  • 2+ years experience Experience working with NGS data, workflows and common bioinformatics tools (bwa/bowtie, samtools, bedtools).
  • 2+ years experience working Postgres (desired) or other relational sql based DB.
  • Expertise in Linux and Shell programming.
  • Familiarity with source code revision control such as git, svn or related systems.
Preferred Skills and Expertise:
  • Experience working with containers such as Docker.
  • Expertise in multiple programing languages: C++ , Perl , R.
  • Experience in the development of bioinformatics tools for genomic data analysis.
  • Experience in the development of bioinformatic pipelines and workflows.
  • Experience in the validation and optimization of bioinformatic tools .
  • Experience with transcriptomic or meta-transcriptomic data and analysis.
  • Familiarity with and experience in the use of NCBI and other common gene, protein and pathway annotations sources and databases.
  • Familiarity with microbial, metabolomics or human genomics literature
  • Experience with of taxonomy and taxonomic classification systems.
Our ideal candidate has a positive attitude and enjoys working as part of a team. If you have the skills and are excited about Viome’s mission, we’d love to hear from you!


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Additional Info:
Viome is a wellness as a service company that applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to biological data – e.g., microbiome, transcriptome and metabolome data – to provide personalized recommendations for healthy living. We are a small, interdisciplinary and passionate team of experts in biochemistry, microbiology, medicine, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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