SENIOR RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR – BIOINFORMATICS SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Posted on by Charlie Johnson
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Job date: 2014-10-02
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Company : Bristol-Myers Squibb 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:

Job description

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated individual able to collaborate with a team of Ph.D. Bioinformatics software developer scientists whose primary roles are hands-on data integration of genomics data, analysis and visualization of diverse biological and chemical data sets. The main role of the candidate is to develop novel dynamic user interfaces to create a cohesive framework to analyze and integrate genomics data. The candidate should have sufficient knowledge of open source and commercial packages to recognize when existing software solutions are relevant.

Desired Skills and Experience

The candidate must have at least either a M.Sc and 3 year of experience or a Ph. D and one year of experience in the fields of Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics or related disciplines.
  • Functional fluency in at least one programming language (Perl, Java, C++) is required, and knowledge of additional languages is desirable.
  • The candidate must be able to develop novel software to address problems defined by their research collaborators.
  • Additionally, the ability to independently identify problems or new opportunities is required.
  • Prior experience in industry or academia is required.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills are a must.
  • The candidate must be comfortable working in a Linux environment; more extensive experience in high-performance *nix systems would be desirable. Primary authorship of published open source code is highly desirable.
  • Prior work in data integration, graph theory, semantic systems and/or published research on pharmaceutical disease areas is also desirable.
  • While not required, prior non-trivial work with BioPerl would be an advantage. Familiarity with statistical methods is desired.

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