Sr. Bioinformatician

Job ID: 21877
Job date: 2016-12-31
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Company : Elevate Recruiting Group 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
We’re a smart, growing team tackling big problems. Our mission is to give couples the best chance of having a healthy child and we need your help to bring the latest technology in genetics together with advanced signal processing and statistics.

Our bioinformatics team works closely with our Biology R&D team and our Statistics team to develop new molecular diagnostic tests. The ideal candidate for this position is a hands-on bioinformatics scientist with strong programming skills. You should have significant experience analyzing high-throughput sequencing data. You should be comfortable working with very large datasets, developing software for computational clusters, and analyzing noisy biological data. The ability to collaborate with experts in other disciplines, including biologists, mathematicians and engineers, is essential.

Responsibilities:

-You will join a small team in the analysis of high-throughput DNA sequence data and work with our team of scientists and statisticians to answer specific biological questions.

-Develop tools and automated analysis pipelines for diagnostic tests, including variant-detection tools and quality-control checks.

-Design primers for multiplexed PCR assays.

Job Requirements:

-Masters or PhD in bioinformatics, engineering or related fields.

-Minimum 3 years of industry experience.

-Deep understanding of DNA sequence data and its analysis (mapping, variant calling etc).

-Experience with public domain data sources e.g. HapMap, dbSNP and 1000 genomes, strongly preferred.

-Experience programming in Java and/or C++ strongly preferred .

-Experience programming in one or more scripting languages: Groovy, Ruby, Perl or Python.

-Experience using Linux command-line tools and writing shell scripts.

-Experience with relational databases (MySQL preferred) is a plus.

-Self-motivated and detail-oriented.


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Location/City : CA - Redwood City

Id : 21877

Category : Software Engineer

Job Type : 1: Full Time

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