Job ID: 561496129
Job date: 2018-01-05
End Date:
Company : Amerit Consulting Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2018-01-05
End Date:
Company : Amerit Consulting Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
Job Requirement:
Additional Info:
Amerit Consulting is an extremely fast growing staffing and consulting firm. Our revenue growth has averaged over 50% growth per quarter for the past 14 quarters and our growth is anticipated to continue. Currently, Amerit has over 2,000 employees in 46 states. Amerit provides consulting, temporary staffing and payrolling services to Fortune 500 companies nationally. We develop and implement solutions that help our clients operate more efficiently, deliver greater customer satisfaction, and see a positive impact on their bottom line. We create value by bringing together the right people to achieve results. Our clients and employees say they choose to work with Amerit because of how we work with them - with service that exceeds their expectations and a personal commitment to their success.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
Job Requirement:
- You will be an integral part of an enthusiastic and dedicated team of scientists, engineers working towards development and validation of cutting-edge scientific solutions applying unique bioinformatics solutions to Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data.
- Your job is to develop and test customized analytical solutions which leverage current Ion Torrent(TM) software frameworks for measuring gene expression using targeted NGS panels for clinical diagnostics applications.
- In addition, you will have the opportunity to develop potentially novel algorithms which may be packaged into R&D analytical modules.
- Using current analytical software workflows, design analytical strategies with fully defined metrics to evaluate the performance of custom NGS assays targeting specific gene targets and generating gene expression profiles.
- Modify and integrate any panel specific parameter customizations while developing a testing schema to be employed for assay validation which includes all relevant variant calling metrics as defined by you and the clinical diagnostics team.
- The position also will require regular communication with Ion Torrent(TM) software teams and clinical diagnostics teams.
- Position also requires frequent data analysis/software development summaries to be presented to and reviewed by the team and coordinate with various stakeholders in system/primary/secondary/tertiary analysis to drive issues to resolution
- MS. or higher in Bioinformatics, Biomedical engineering, Computer science/engineering or related fields.
- MS degree in Molecular biology with 3+ years of working experiences in bioinformatics field will also be considered.
- Strong knowledge of sequence analysis and bioinformatics tools and public databases, e.g. IGV, BLAST, Ensembl, NCBI, UCSC Genome browser, OMIM, COSMIC etc.3+ years of Software development skills and experience.
- Strong development skills Python/Perl experience is needed.
- Strong expertise working in a Linux/Unix environment. Good understanding of software design and development cycle.
- Product development and/or industry experience in a multi-disciplinary Biotech environment is a plus.
- Knowledge of gene expression profiling/clustering algorithms, visualization, and R-Bioconductor packages is highly desirable.
- Experience with Software production tools (IDE, source control, and document tracking) and Test Management (HP QC, JIRA) is a plus. Must have the ability to communicate effectively with scientists, engineers and software developers and be detail oriented and self-driven
Requeriments :
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in Bioinformatics
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in Computer Science
- Master's Degree in Engineering
Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- Lunix/Unix
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in Python
- Programming in PERL
- Software Design
Areas :
Additional Info:
Amerit Consulting is an extremely fast growing staffing and consulting firm. Our revenue growth has averaged over 50% growth per quarter for the past 14 quarters and our growth is anticipated to continue. Currently, Amerit has over 2,000 employees in 46 states. Amerit provides consulting, temporary staffing and payrolling services to Fortune 500 companies nationally. We develop and implement solutions that help our clients operate more efficiently, deliver greater customer satisfaction, and see a positive impact on their bottom line. We create value by bringing together the right people to achieve results. Our clients and employees say they choose to work with Amerit because of how we work with them - with service that exceeds their expectations and a personal commitment to their success.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]