Job Description:
Roche Kapa Biosystems is looking for an outstanding Sr. Bioinformatics Scientist to join the team. Kapa Biosystems, located in Wilmington, MA, is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of life science reagents for DNA and RNA amplification, sequencing, molecular diagnostic and applied testing applications. As a Sr. Bioinformatics Scientist you will be leading bioinformatics activities for internal applications projects, including consulting during experimental design and working closely with experimental researchers to generate/provide analysis reports, project reports and perform requested custom analyses to ensure that project goals are met within specified timelines. In this position you will: • Serve as a functional expert to the technical support team, assisting in investigating and troubleshooting key account customer issues, ensuring that data is received and processed in a systematic, replicable, traceable and timely manner, as well as communicating results to the customer. • Ensure that processed data is made available to internal and external customers in a clear, concise and informative format. • Expand existing and developing new in-house bioinformatics capacity, including the creation, maintenance and utilization of data analysis and visualization pipelines. • Expand/manage compute resource requirements; coordinate the procurement and installation of new compute resources as needed. • Stay current on emerging NGS platforms and applications, along with associated data types and analysis paradigms. Who you are: You’re someone who wants to influence your own development. You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point. To be successful in this role you will have a PhD or MS in a relevant subject (Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, or a closely related subject) with three or eight years’ experience, respectively. Additionally you will have: • Broad knowledge of bioinformatics methods appropriate for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications, such as targeted sequencing, whole exome sequencing (WES), RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, Methyl-Seq/Bis-Seq, whole genome sequencing (WGS) • Hands-on experience designing, developing, and documenting bioinformatics pipeline solutions for NGS applications • Experience with genome alignment, mapping, variant calling, differential expression, and annotation • Demonstrated experience in one or more scripting/programming languages, such as Perl/Python, Bash, C/C++ • An understanding of next generation sequence sequencing methods, quality scores, and their interpretation • Experience with open source bioinformatics tools (e.g., BWA, Picard, SAMtools, GATK, Bowtie) • Basic knowledge of methods in statistics; working knowledge of R • Experience with Linux system setup and management and/or high performance computing environment setup and management • Knowledge of molecular genetics and genomics
Additional Info:
Who we are: As a global leader in healthcare, Roche Diagnostics offers a broad portfolio of products, tools and services that help in the prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases like HPV, HIV, hepatitis and diabetes as well as other medical conditions,such as fertility and blood coagulation. These products and services are used by researchers, physicians, patients, hospitals and laboratories worldwide to help improve people’s lives. Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the on-line application process, please email us at US.Accommodation@roche.com. EEO is the Law PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
Roche Kapa Biosystems is looking for an outstanding Sr. Bioinformatics Scientist to join the team. Kapa Biosystems, located in Wilmington, MA, is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of life science reagents for DNA and RNA amplification, sequencing, molecular diagnostic and applied testing applications. As a Sr. Bioinformatics Scientist you will be leading bioinformatics activities for internal applications projects, including consulting during experimental design and working closely with experimental researchers to generate/provide analysis reports, project reports and perform requested custom analyses to ensure that project goals are met within specified timelines. In this position you will: • Serve as a functional expert to the technical support team, assisting in investigating and troubleshooting key account customer issues, ensuring that data is received and processed in a systematic, replicable, traceable and timely manner, as well as communicating results to the customer. • Ensure that processed data is made available to internal and external customers in a clear, concise and informative format. • Expand existing and developing new in-house bioinformatics capacity, including the creation, maintenance and utilization of data analysis and visualization pipelines. • Expand/manage compute resource requirements; coordinate the procurement and installation of new compute resources as needed. • Stay current on emerging NGS platforms and applications, along with associated data types and analysis paradigms. Who you are: You’re someone who wants to influence your own development. You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point. To be successful in this role you will have a PhD or MS in a relevant subject (Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, or a closely related subject) with three or eight years’ experience, respectively. Additionally you will have: • Broad knowledge of bioinformatics methods appropriate for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications, such as targeted sequencing, whole exome sequencing (WES), RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, Methyl-Seq/Bis-Seq, whole genome sequencing (WGS) • Hands-on experience designing, developing, and documenting bioinformatics pipeline solutions for NGS applications • Experience with genome alignment, mapping, variant calling, differential expression, and annotation • Demonstrated experience in one or more scripting/programming languages, such as Perl/Python, Bash, C/C++ • An understanding of next generation sequence sequencing methods, quality scores, and their interpretation • Experience with open source bioinformatics tools (e.g., BWA, Picard, SAMtools, GATK, Bowtie) • Basic knowledge of methods in statistics; working knowledge of R • Experience with Linux system setup and management and/or high performance computing environment setup and management • Knowledge of molecular genetics and genomics
Requeriments :
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in Bioinformatics
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in computational biology
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in Computer Science
Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- Genetics
- genomic
- HPC
- Lunix/Unix
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in C
- Programing in C++
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in PERL
- Programming in R
- RNA-seq
- Statistics
Areas :
Additional Info:
Who we are: As a global leader in healthcare, Roche Diagnostics offers a broad portfolio of products, tools and services that help in the prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases like HPV, HIV, hepatitis and diabetes as well as other medical conditions,such as fertility and blood coagulation. These products and services are used by researchers, physicians, patients, hospitals and laboratories worldwide to help improve people’s lives. Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the on-line application process, please email us at US.Accommodation@roche.com. EEO is the Law PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]