Senior Computational Biologist

USA
Full-time

Are you interested in integrating and analyzing complex, high-dimensional data sets and making significant contributions to our Drug Discovery Research and Development team? If so, this Computational Biology Senior Scientist role could be perfect for you. Come and join us.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Closely collaborate with researchers and answer biological questions of interest by performing quality control of experimentally generated data, relevant statistical analyses of the processed data, and bioinformatics analyses to refine or interpret the resulting discoveries in the context of third-party knowledge from literature or other public databases.
• Build databases and software infrastructure to load, store, and organize the diverse data sets, associated metadata, and analysis results from the high-throughput assays, to facilitate efficient data retrieval and data mining.
• Collaborate with peer computational biologists in the lab and conduct cutting-edge bioinformatics and systems biology research.
• Develop and work with custom hardware and software solutions to accomplish various goals.
• Research, analyze, and improve software and associated data for health care / life sciences.

Required Qualifications

• Ph.D. in bioinformatics, computational biology/chemistry, or related discipline.
• 3 -5 years of work experience in research institutes or biotech/pharmaceutical industry.
• Solid computer programming skills with proficiency in Matlab/R, SQL, and at least one scripting language (Perl/Python/Ruby). Proficiency in C/C++ and/or Java and experience with multiple operating system platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux). Skilled in using environments such as Unity, graph search algorithms and machine learning.
• Previous experience developing scientific solutions and prototyping ideas with cutting-edge technologies combining computer science, software, data science, machine learning and health care / life sciences innovations.
• Ability to work with and understand the needs of biologists and other software users.
• Publications in computational biology.

* Not accepting calls from applicants.

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