SENIOR RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR – BIOINFORMATICS SOFTWARE DEVELOPER – GENOMICS DATA

This role will be responsible for developing novel dynamic user interfaces to create a cohesive framework to analyze and integrate genomics data.The Sr. Research Investigator will 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. QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's with 3+ years or PhD with 1+ year of relevant industry or academia experience required. Education should be 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.
• Ability to develop novel software to address problems defined by their research collaborators is required. Additionally, the ability to independently identify problems or new opportunities is required.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills are a essential.
• Ability to work 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.
• Sufficient knowledge of open source and commercial packages to recognize when existing software solutions are relevant.