Senior Bioinformatician (NGS)

Job Description:
I'm searching for a Sr. Bioinformatician (NGS) who wants to Revolutionize Food Testing! This innovative, Series B startup is located in Menlo Park, CA and backed by some of the top VC's! I'm working with the founders to fill several roles right now and with a great compensation package, equity and benefits this is an opportunity you definitely want to explore.

DESCRIPTION

• As a Senior Bioinformatician at Clear Labs, you will be a key member of the Engineering team with the opportunity to develop and enhance Clear Labs’ bioinformatics pipelines, which analyzes large data sets of food samples from high-throughput sequencing technologies to determine authenticity and detect anomalies such as substitution, contamination, pathogens, additives, GMOs, etc.
• You will be responsible for developing statistical algorithms, methods, and programs for analysis of genomics data. You will have access to unparalleled food quality data and domain experts within the company to grow and develop both personally and professionally. This is an excellent bioinformatics opportunity to work in a cutting edge genomics group with opportunities to grow and publish.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop analysis pipeline for new market-disrupting product
• Enhance and maintain robust and automated pipelines analysing NGS data fast with high accuracy
• Evaluate third-party tools and libraries we may wish to leverage in our pipelines
• Operate, monitor and support production analysis pipeline runs
• Work closely with our science and product team to help define product enhancements, spec technical requirements, and develop project plans

REQUIREMENTS:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Bioinformatics or related field
• Minimum 1 year of experience developing algorithms processing high-throughput next-generation sequencing (HTS/NGS)
• Comfortable working in cloud environments, ideally AWS
• Proven development experience with one object-oriented language, ideally Python
• Proficiency with SQL and UNIX shells
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal with engineers and product marketer
• Ability to work independently and know when to ask for help in a fast paced and high performing environment

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Requeriments :

• Technical Bachelor

Skills :

• Lunix/Unix
• Next Generation Sequencing
• SQL

Areas :

• Bioinformatics

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Additional Info:
BENEFITS

• Competitive salary and Incentive stock options
• Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Flexible vacation policy
• 4 hot meals / week delivered to the office
• Massages

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