As a Senior Bioinformatician, you will use strong scientific knowledge and programming skills to design and implement bioinformatics services for research projects at the Biological Sciences Division. You will be focused on hands-on technical activities for a wide range of high-throughput genomics technologies, including the applications of Next Generation Sequencing, spanning pipeline development, optimization, operations, and support.
Education:
Doctoral degree in Bioinformatics, the Biological Sciences, Computer Science, or a related field required.
Experience:
Two (2) or more years of experience in the field of bioinformatics
Two (2) or more years of experience programming in at least three (3) of the following languages: Python, Java, SQL, XML, Perl, and R
Demonstrated experience and proficiency in analysis pipeline development of high- throughput data
Hands-on experience with next generation sequencing technologies such as BWA, Novoalign, STAR, GATK, samtools, Picard, and other tools
Experience and a working understanding of algorithms, data structures, and scientific programming
Experience working on Linux and/or Unix systems
Experience working on High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure
Demonstrated experience in the development, optimization, automation, and operations support of analysis pipelines for high-dimensional data including whole-genome, whole- exome, and RNA sequencing data preferred
Experience in employing high performance computing to solve parallelizable compute problems preferred
Experience providing bioinformatics services or other service roles preferred.
Experience with project management preferred
Experience with genomic datasets such as TCGA, TARGET, CGCI, MMRF, and ICGC preferred
Experience with version control, such as git, preferred
Experience with both molecular and clinical data preferred
Experience mentoring early career bioinformaticians preferred
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