Bioinformatics Scientist

Job ID: 591384927
Job date: 2018-02-05
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Company : Gusto Global LLC 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
Gusto Global LLC, a drug discovery and development company with a focus on next generation microbiome-inspired immune-modulation therapies, seeks to hire a highly-motivated bioinformatics programmer to aid in the development of a software platform for the annotation, analysis, and modeling of human gut microbiomes and custom microbiome formulations. The successful candidate will be a skilled programmer, capable of developing backend pipelines, building data indexing systems, and developing simple front-end viewers for a rich array of biological datatypes. The candidate will be operating within a small, versatile, innovative, and rapidly-growing start-up environment, interacting closely with a small team of talented and world-leading scientists (Jack Gilbert, Christopher Henry, Daniel van der Lelie and Safiyh Taghavi) who co-founded the company. The position is located in the Charlotte region, North Carolina, USA.

Required Skills:

  • BS (MS a plus) in bioinformatics, computer science or related field
  • Highly proficient in perl, bash, javascript, and web application development
  • Capable of developing micro-services to wrap an API around existing sequence analysis tools (e.g. genome/metagenome assemblers, genome annotators, BLAST)
  • Capable of designing data indexes using modern frameworks (e.g. SOLR, Elasticsearch) to support rapid data queries
  • Capable of building simple web interfaces for browsing and visualizing data
  • Capable of conceiving and implementing new data analysis and data mining algorithms
  • Strong communications skills and a desire to work in a small team environment
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Excited to operate within a team environment
Preferred Skills:
  • Experience with biological datatypes and repositories, including: genomes, metagenomes, transcriptomes, NCBI, SRA, IMG, PATRIC, and KEGG
  • Experience with common tools and pipelines in bioinformatics, including: BLAST, genome assemblers, RAST, MGRAST, QIIME, anti-smash, ModelSEED, COBRA-Py, COBRA Toolbox
  • Experience with reconstruction and analysis of metabolic models
  • Experience with machine learning algorithms
  • Knowledgeable of computer hard-ware and basic system administration
Other Prerequisites:
  • The successful candidate must be authorized to work in the United States
  • The successful candidate should be willing to locate to the Charlotte, NC area


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Additional Info:
For interested candidates, please provide a letter of interest, which clearly states your research background, plus Curriculum Vitae to info@gustoglobal.com

This position will remain open until 31 January 2018, or until the right candidate has been found….

Gusto Global LLC, a drug discovery and development company with a focus on next generation microbiome-inspired immune-modulation therapies.

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