Bioinformatics Engineer

Job ID: 17-03782
Job date: 2017-12-07
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Company : Trident Consulting Inc 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
We are seeking an energetic individual for an entry level Bioinformatics Engineer position who can work as part of a team. This position is located in either our San Diego, CA or Mountain View, CA office.

The successful applicant will need to:

  • Quickly learn the structure of the existing software.
  • Run, monitor and troubleshoot existing Bioinformatic workflows.
  • Be able to modify the existing software and/or re-write it in a more efficient language.
  • Assist in the maintenance, development and optimization of pipelines and tools for metabolomic and 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 1+ years of industry experience.
  • Expertise in Python Programing.
  • Expertise with 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.
  • Experience working with NGS data, workflows and common bioinformatics tools (bwa/bowtie, samtools, bedtools).
Preferred Skills and Expertise:
  • Familiarity with Amazon's AWS ecosystem.
  • Expertise in multiple programing languages: Python, C++ , Perl , Scala.
  • Experience working with containers such as Docker.
  • 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.


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