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Staff Scientist - Bioinformatics Engineer (Remote)

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city of hopeDenver, COyesterday
Staff Scientist - Bioinformatics Engineer (Remote) Join the forefront of groundbreaking research at City Hope where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. Our dedicated and compassionate faculty and staff are driven by a common mission: Contribute to innovative approaches in predicting, preventing, and curing diseases, shaping the future of medicine through cutting-edge research. 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). City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location. City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. Primary Location: United States-California-DuarteJob: Research Work Force Type: Remote
Shift: Days
Minimum Hourly Rate ($): 38.674337 Maximum Hourly Rate ($): 127.693000
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Level

SeniorL5

Location

Denver, CO

Occupation

Bioinformatics Scientists

Industry

Research and Development in Biotechnology

Posted

yesterday

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