Senior Bioinformatics Analyst (#10673) – Emeryville, CA

At Affymetrix, we are passionate about enabling our customers, scientists, and clinicians to improve human health and wellness by understanding and applying biology for a better world. Our employees bring talent, creativity, collaboration, and energy to what they do. Join us at Affymetrix and make a difference.   Position Summary:   The Bioinformatics group seeks a talented and motivated individual to provide analytical and software support for product research and development efforts.   The successful candidate will work with a small team that manages critical informatics support for the Affymetrix catalog. The Affymetrix catalog is a highly visible and heavily used component of www.affymetrix.com. Applicants will also contribute to the development of new custom designs, and interface with several cross-functional groups at Affymetrix and our scientific customers. Duties will include development of novel data analysis approaches, as well as bioinformatics programming and analysis activities in support of product development.   This position requires familiarity with standard genomics tools, such as high-throughput genomic mapping/alignment, annotation databases, as well as the ability to handle very large bioinformatics datasets and develop automated workflows. The candidate will also have an opportunity to develop web applications. Strong knowledge of bioinformatics databases and tools, and software engineering skills are required while utilizing such tools as Python and/or Perl, Java, and SQL. A desire to learn web production skills and tools is a plus.