Software Engineer: Big Data, Algorithms – NGS

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Job date: 2018-03-04
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Company : Ricanz Corporation 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
Seeking a software engineer ready to use their Big Data and algorithm expertise to work in a cross functional team to develop clinical-grade software for next-generation sequencing (NGS). Your work will support new medical technologies that will protect lives and improve patient outcomes across the world.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with cross-functional teams to create clinical products based on complex bioinformatics algorithms and next-generation sequencing (NGS) pipelines.
  • Work with bioinformatics scientists and software engineers to integrate bioinformatics components into a Docker-based data processing pipeline (C#, Python).
  • Write software design specifications.
  • Partner with software testers and domain experts in designing, performing, and improving verification of existing software.
  • Develop and execute automated unit, functional and integration tests.
  • Follow and advocate Software Development Life Cycle procedures.
Required Skills & Experience:
  • Minimum 5 years industry experience
  • Expertise developing in Linux environment
  • Expertise with big data processing (NGS data preferred)
  • Parallel data processing
  • Algorithm development experience with object-oriented languages such as C# (preferred), C++ or Java.
  • Detail-oriented fast learner with strong sense of ownership and motivation
  • Excellent technical writing skills, experience writing software design documentation
Preferred Skills & Experience:
  • Understanding of Oncology, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, or related field of biology
  • Basic experience with bioinformatics tools and algorithms for NGS.
  • Docker experience.
Required Education:

Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or related field.

Required experience:

  • parallel data processing: 1 year
  • linux: 1 year
  • C++ or Java: 1 year
  • next generation sequencing: 1 year
  • Python: 1 year
  • big data and algorithm: 1 year
  • C#: 1 year
Required education: Master's


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Additional Info:
This is a W2 contract position anticipated to last 9 to 12 months. No benefits except 3 paid days off per year. Candidate must be US citizen, Green card holder or have an EAD, unable to sponsor H1B's at this time.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Salary: $75.00 to $90.00 /hour

Job Location: San Diego, CA

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