Senior/Principal Bioinformatics Scientist
Greater San Francisco
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work within an interdisciplinary team of molecular biologists, cellular biologists, data scientists / statisticians and software engineers
- Develop and implement automated methods and analytical tools to deliver insights and hypotheses from multi-dimensional biological data sets
- Use established programming standards and best practices in building Bioinformatics tools
- Present scientific and technical data
- Bring in original ideas to create solutions to complex problems
REQUIRED
- Experience in cancer, immunology research
- Experience in application of statistical techniques to biological data, experience in exploratory analysis
- Experience in R programing and SQL
- In depth knowledge of relevant public and proprietary databases, methods and tools (NCBI, UCSC Genome Browser, TCGA)
- Demonstrated expertise in delivering insights and hypotheses from complex multi-dimensional biological data in a biomedical context.
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Integrate innovative analysis and visualization tools for omics data sets
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Computational biology or other related fields
- 2+ years of relevant post-graduate research experience, including biotech/pharma experience