Bioinformatics Scientist (HLI5514)

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Job date: 2015-06-23
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Company : Human Longevity, Inc 

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Role : Faculty 


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Job Description:
Human Longevity, Inc. Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), is a human health information technology and health care company founded by pioneers in the fields of genomics and stem cell therapy to revolutionize human health and the practice of medicine.  Using advances in genomic sequencing, the human microbiome, metabolomics, informatics, computing, and cell therapy technologies, HLI is building the world’s most comprehensive knowledge base of human genotypes and phenotypes as a basis for a variety of opportunities to help solve aging related disease and human biological decline.  HLI will be licensing access to its Knowledgebase™ to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, academic institutions and medical centers, governments, insurers and physicians, and developing new diagnostics and therapeutics as part of their product offerings. Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Develop and apply novel statistical, bioinformatics, and data mining algorithms to identify biological patterns
  • Develop and implement methods for assembling, phasing, annotating and characterizing human genomes at an industrial scale
  • Carry out association analyses with sophisticated genotypic, microbiomic, metabolomic, proteomic and phenotypic information
  • Possibly perform in Bioinformatics Sequencing Production capacity
Minimum Qualifications (Must have)
  • Ph.D in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Statistics, Computer Science or closely related fields with a focus on applications of next generation sequencing (NGS)
  • Strong programming skills, and the ability to design and prototype computational algorithms in C++, Python, R, Java, or C#
  • Comfortable in a Linux environment
  • Established track record applying innovative methods to drive project success
  • Demonstrate outstanding personal initiative and the ability to work effectively as part of a team
  • Collaborate with diverse scientists from computational and experimental backgrounds
  • Lead, coach, and mentor scientists in the design and execution of innovative research programs
  • Demonstrates excellent verbal and written and communication skills
  • Must have excellent familiarity with computational, statistical or mathematical methods
  • Prior experience working with large-scale genetics and genomics datasets (Big Data)
Preferred Qualifications
  • 2+ years’ experience in a startup organization
  • 2+ years post-graduate experience
  • Publications demonstrating expertise in one or more of the following: assembly, phasing, structural variant identification, SNP calling, genome annotation, or GWAS
  • Relational database experience: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgresql, or MySQL
  • A second language
Working Conditions
  • Open office environment
  • Global environment with multiple sites, which may require work beyond standard business hours
  • Prolonged periods of sitting, standing, bending and kneeling
  • Must be able to lift at least 25 pounds
Human Longevity, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer   DISCLAIMER: The information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work. It is not designed to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities of an employee to this job.


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