Computational Biologist – Human Cell Atlas

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Job date: 2018-03-30
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Company : Broad Institute 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
The successful candidate will lead the design, implementation, and improvement of computational pipelines in cloud scalable environments. We are looking for an engineering minded candidate who will become an expert in data pipelines used by the single cell community while using their knowledge of cloud platforms to create resources for the global scientific community. This individual will work in a team actively working with specialist communities to develop computational pipelines and translate these solutions to scalable cloud solutions. Additionally, this person will be actively involved in all aspects of maintaining current pipelines, including evaluating and implementing enhancements.

Key Responsibilities:

  • To become an expert in implementing single cell genomics pipelines, evaluating emerging trends and methodology, and selecting best-in-class technologies to make available to our research community.
  • To be an expert on optimizing computational pipelines to scalable cloud infrastructure using in-house developed platforms and scalable infrastructure API.
  • To be responsible for the development, enhancement, and maintenance of current and new bioinformatics pipelines prototypes.
  • To evaluate the performance of pipelines, defining key metrics to measure performance, and troubleshooting samples/runs.
  • To identify key technical and scientific data sets to use in benchmarking new methodology and establish regression tests to ensure reliable and reproducible performance.
  • To oversee the process of translating prototyped sequence analysis pipelines to professional, scalable pipelines.
Requirements:
  • Experience with developing next-generation sequencing pipelines or experience working with images computationally (eg. machine vision, and image processing).
  • Have experience with at least one scripting language (preferably Python, R) and one formal programming language (eg. Java, C family, Scala).
  • Must have experience with scalable cloud environments (GCP preferred).
  • Must be comfortable in a Linux environment.
  • Expertise within one of the following fields: Genetics, Genomics/Computational Biology, Biology, Statistics, Algorithm Development, Machine vision, Image processing, Machine learning, or Big Data processing pipelines.
  • Graduate work in Computer Science, Mathematics, Bioinformatics, or a related field is required.
  • Must be compassionate and enjoy helping others.


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