Job ID: 629655439
Job date: 2018-04-24
End Date: 2018-06-23
Company : Counsyl Country : United States Role : Technician
Job date: 2018-04-24
End Date: 2018-06-23
Company : Counsyl Country : United States Role : Technician
Job Description:
We are looking for software engineers to join the Bioinformatics team at Counsyl and help build the analytical pipeline responsible for delivering meaningful health impact to hundreds of thousands of patients a year. The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a collaborative, multidisciplinary R&D environment as we build innovative solutions for bioinformatics software systems. They will have a scientific curiosity with eagerness to learn and explore new challenges since their work will enable breakthroughs in genomics. What you'll do:
Additional Info:
Counsyl is a health technology company that offers DNA screening for men, women and their children. Our philosophy is simple - focus on diseases where advanced knowledge makes a difference in health outcomes, whether it's changing a behavior, pursuing preventative measures, or simply preparing for what lies ahead. Counsyl has screened over 500,000 patients and served over 6,000 health professionals in its modern clinical laboratory. From the purely mechanical to profoundly human, Counsyl strives to make DNA screening truly accessible to everyone. The team consists of world class engineers, scientists and clinical experts as well as a renowned engineering and scientific advisory board. Counsyl integrates sophisticated technology with custom robotic automation in its accredited medical laboratory. This focus on technology has made Counsyl a leader in helping patients and doctors communicate about medical results in real time. Its products have won the Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Award for Medicine, and have been named one of Scientific American's "Top 10 World Changing Ideas." Counsyl’s Family Prep Screen has already helped hundreds of thousands of people discover critical information before having children, and the Counsyl platform now extends beyond family preparation to include informed pregnancy and cancer screening.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
We are looking for software engineers to join the Bioinformatics team at Counsyl and help build the analytical pipeline responsible for delivering meaningful health impact to hundreds of thousands of patients a year. The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a collaborative, multidisciplinary R&D environment as we build innovative solutions for bioinformatics software systems. They will have a scientific curiosity with eagerness to learn and explore new challenges since their work will enable breakthroughs in genomics. What you'll do:
- Author innovative, robust, and high quality software systems
- Responsible for Counsyl’s core NGS products analytical pipeline from raw sequencing data to patient genotypes
- Translational development of scientific prototypes into production
- Build frameworks and practices to enable continuous integration for science
- Industry thought leadership with contributions to open source bioinformatics tools
- Build frameworks and applications to support simultaneously running projects at scale
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Bioinformatics with 2+ years industry experience or Ph.D. with relevant academic research
- Proven track record of developing innovative and high performance bioinformatics algorithms and analysis pipelines
- Proficient in scientific Python (numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit learn, etc) and familiarity with C++ or Java
- Fluency with Linux, high-performance computing clusters, shell scripting, databases, and analysis pipelines. Bonus for background in cloud computing architecture
- Experience with (or eagerness to learn) modern NGS tools
- Previous experience in regulated clinical environment with rigorous design control and software validation a big plus
- Experience with large scale data science, statistical modeling, and machine learning a plus
Requeriments :
Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- Cloud Computing
- HPC
- Lunix/Unix
- Machine Learning
- Modeling
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in C++
- Programing in Python
- Programming in Java
- Shell scripting
- Software Design
- Statistics
Areas :
Additional Info:
Counsyl is a health technology company that offers DNA screening for men, women and their children. Our philosophy is simple - focus on diseases where advanced knowledge makes a difference in health outcomes, whether it's changing a behavior, pursuing preventative measures, or simply preparing for what lies ahead. Counsyl has screened over 500,000 patients and served over 6,000 health professionals in its modern clinical laboratory. From the purely mechanical to profoundly human, Counsyl strives to make DNA screening truly accessible to everyone. The team consists of world class engineers, scientists and clinical experts as well as a renowned engineering and scientific advisory board. Counsyl integrates sophisticated technology with custom robotic automation in its accredited medical laboratory. This focus on technology has made Counsyl a leader in helping patients and doctors communicate about medical results in real time. Its products have won the Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Award for Medicine, and have been named one of Scientific American's "Top 10 World Changing Ideas." Counsyl’s Family Prep Screen has already helped hundreds of thousands of people discover critical information before having children, and the Counsyl platform now extends beyond family preparation to include informed pregnancy and cancer screening.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]