Senior Architect - Development, Sequencing (Mountain View)

Company Description

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Job Description

Job Description:

As a senior architect for product development, you will drive critical product design & architecture decisions, and components of our sequencing technology development. The role will involve a wide variety of activities related to product development and base algorithm engineering. You will work with large experimental data sets generated by Client's proprietary single molecule electronic DNA sequencing platform. You will work directly with scientists from various fields, including physics, biochemistry, electrical engineering, and software engineering. The successful candidate must be excited to learn new concepts from these diverse areas and apply them to an ambitious, interdisciplinary project.

Responsibilities Include:

• Design & architecting of software systems, using knowledge in pattern recognition, machine learning concepts & models.
• Application of software development models to meet business requirements.
• Collaborating with scientists from diverse fields to advance parameter estimation code.

Skills:

• MUST have scientific programming experience in Python, and willingness to learn Python.
• MUST have a basic understanding of pattern recognition and machine learning.
• MUST be excited about expanding your current skill set. If a new tool or methodology is needed, you will have the flexibility to learn about it and apply it to the project.
• Experience with distributed computing or cloud implementation is a plus.
• Previous exposure to fields of bioinformatics, natural language processing, chemistry, or biophysics is a plus.

Background:

• 10+ years or equivalent experience in computer science, bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics, etc.
• Demonstrated potential to lead complex, long-term projects.
• Desire to work as part of a team in a startup-like environment.

Additional Information

• Good communication skills are a big priority.
• Duration: 12+ Months

Candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.