The Icahn Institute for Genomics & Multiscale Biology is looking for talented data scientists with the responsibilities and qualifications listed below. At the Icahn Institute, our vision is to transform biomedical research and healthcare delivery into a data-driven, evidence-based, patient-tailored discipline. The Icahn Institute was founded in 2011 to help advance precision medicine with cutting-edge technologies, novel partnerships between the public and private sectors, and world class computational and analytical resources. By maximally leveraging information from patients around theworld, we deliver premier precision care optimized for each patient, while discovering breakthrough, next-generation treatments through insights derived from cutting-edge analytics applied to unprecedented amounts of patient-derived data. We promote a core set of values –designed to promote our future vision of team-oriented, data driven global biomedical research: 1) Do good for the patient, 2) Simplify, 3) Share openly, 4) Focus, 5) Synergize, 6) Contributions, not politics, and 7) Deliver.
What You’ll Do
Data Scientists at Mount Sinai work with clinicians, researchers, and engineers to extract value from data. Effective data science is critical to the success of our research efforts and clinical translation, ensuring we make correct inferences from the vast wealth of biomedical data generated at Mount Sinai and across the world.
Data Scientists may work on many of the cutting-edge research areas at Mount Sinai, including:
Analysis of high throughput genomic, transcriptomic, epigenetic, proteomic, andother "-omic" data.
Scalable machine learning approaches to network and predictive models of biological processes
Medical record mining
Causal inference
The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and programming proficiencies and proven expertise in high-dimensional data analysis.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Apply computational techniques to analyze large-scale biomedical datasets.
• Create data-driven models and data visualizations for clinical and research work
• Perform rigorous and reproducible data analyses
• Develop projects and work independently on a variety of data analysis projects
• Learn and use bioinformatics tools for processing and analysis of large datasets
• Identify and resolve technical issues and propose upgrades to current software
• Participate in the preparation of manuscripts, grants, and presentations
• Other technical and leadership duties as assigned and commensurate with experience and skills
Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Statistics,Biological Sciences, or other relevant quantitative discipline.
Good organization and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to productively work as a member of a team. Strong verbal and written communication skills in English are required
Experience in data science, machine learning, statistical modeling, genomic analysis, or other relevant analytical field
Experience in programming environments such as R, Matlab, SAS, Stata, Python/Jupyter
Working experience with genetics or statistics analysis software and online resources or other biomedical data analysis is a plus
Knowledge and experience with software engineering best practices such as: version control, code review, unit/regression testing, continuous development/continuous integration.
If interested and qualified, please apply at careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/2250348?lang=en-us.