Staff Scientist - Bioinformatics Engineer (Remote) Job at City of Hope, Duarte, CA

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  • City of Hope
  • Duarte, CA

Job Description

A Staff Scientist position is available for a highly talented bioinformatics engineer to join our computational microbiome team. The successful candidate will contribute to the development and implementation of bioinformatics pipelines. This is an exceptional opportunity for a bioinformatics engineer who is willing to apply his/her expertise to the intersection of human microbiome, immuno-therapy and cancer research. Individuals appointed as staff scientists will receive a one-year fixed-term contract.

As a successful candidate, you will:

  • Develop and implement bioinformatics pipelines.
  • Integrate pipelines into Snakemake workflow. 
  • Keep pipelines current. 
  • Test pipelines in large scale.
  • Provide summary report and documentation of pipelines and results.

Your qualifications should include:

  • PhD or MSc. in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related field.
  • Knowledgeable of Bioinformatics techniques, next generation sequencing data and pipelines.
  • Ability to implement, develop and modify Bioinformatics pipelines.
  • Fluent in scientific scripting languages such as R or Python and bash environment. 
  • Fluent in Snakemake. 
  • Strong communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with microbiome bioinformatics pipelines.
  • Experience with whole genome sequencing (WGS), whole exome sequencing (WES), RNA sequencing (RNAseq) analysis, and calling of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and insertions/deletions (indels).
  • Understanding concepts of molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, immunology.
  • Understanding statistical analysis techniques for microbiome (alpha-diversity, beta-diversity, dimensionality reduction, clustering, regression models).

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Permanent employment, Full time, Fixed term contract, Remote job,

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