Data Scientist for Scientific Visualization via Web Applications

Job ID: 4b7ce6817dd822a7
Job date: 2019-04-05
End Date: 2019-06-04

Company : Harvard Medical School 

Country : United States 

Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology (LSP) is seeking a data scientist to develop data-driven web applications for visualizing and analyzing biomedical research data. The LSP is the primary research unit of Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science (HiTS; http://hits.harvard.edu), which develops and deploys approaches for understanding how therapeutic drugs function to accelerate discovery of new drugs and enable their precise use in individual patients.


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The ideal applicant will have a strong background in web-based scientific data visualization. The applicant will develop and maintain multiple specialized applications and web sites in collaboration with scientists developing the underlying scientific code. It is anticipated that applications will be developed using multiple platforms such as R-Shiny, Dash or various Javascript technologies such as D3. The candidate must have the capacity to conceptualize the overall design of data driven web site and then develop the site in consultation with PhD-level computational biology fellows. The candidate will work well as part of a team that currently comprises ~12 software developers and also have excellent in-person and web-based communication and collaboration skills (e.g. via Slack, Trello).

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