Bioinformatics Software Engineer

Job ID: 6308558
Job date: 2017-12-05
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Company : Becton Dickinson & Company 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
The successful candidate will work closely with a team of software developers, bioinformatics scientists, molecular biologists, and immunologists in the exciting and cutting edge field of single-cell genomics and proteomics. She or he will develop, deploy, and support complex data analysis pipelines that enable research, new technology development, and product development. Success requires a firm grounding in software engineering, knowledge of bioinformatics methods, ability to work successfully in teams, and a strong focus on making our customers successful.

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to cross-functional teams and work directly with scientists and engineers to understand computational and analytic needs and to insure that insightful results are produced that help achieve deparmental research goals.
  • Develop and support Python software applications
  • Develop, test, deploy, automate, and support NGS analysis pipelines.
  • Contribute to end user applications that support visualization and statistical analysis.
  • Troubleshoot problems, address issues, and answer questions from internal users, collaborators, and customers
  • Work directly with customers on fixes and workarounds
  • Benchmark and evaluate pipeline performance, suggest and implement improvements
  • Deploy computationally efficient cloud-based technologies to maximize pipeline efficiency.
  • Insure that good software engineering practices are followed in all development activities.
  • Construct and manage databases. Interact with statisticians, data scientists, engineers and biologists to determine requirements and functionality.
Required Skills:
  • Bachelors degree (Bio or Computer Science related)
  • Python programming and proficiency in data analysis using Python and R
  • Experience implementing NGS data analysis pipelines preferably in a production context
  • Team-oriented
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Able to prioritize and deliver results with a high emphasis on quality, technical rigor, and attention to detail.
Preferred Skills:
  • Experience with advanced data science techniques especially as applied to RNA or Protein expression data.
  • Experience with Linux, shell (e.g. Bash) scripting
  • Experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and SQL language
  • Experience with any of the following: Agile software development, git, AWS, Seven Bridges, Arvados, Matlab, Javascript, React-JS


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Primary Work Location: USA CA - Menlo Park

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