Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Panel design and analysis, read alignment, targeted sequencing, mapping, annotation, and variant calling;
- Communicate results with people in and out of the field;
- Develop novel pipelines for analysis;
- Create a plan and lead a team of bioinformaticians;
- Noblis company asset representing the firm through publications, presentations, and professional membership;
- Perform data analyses or mining of internal and publicly available big data sets;
- Perform bioinformatics analyses of data produced by our droplet digital based technologies;
- Principal Investigator developing and executing internally- and externally-funded bioscience research;
- Develop machine learning and/or computational algorithms for bioinformatics;
- Collaborate with the software team to build R&D and clinical pipelines;
- Solutions Architect contributing to capture and execution of key Advanced Research programs in the defense, homeland security, and intelligence space;
- Subject Matter Expert providing technical leadership to pursuits and programs across the Noblis enterprise;
- Technical execution and expertise of the IARPA FELIX program;
- Participate in designing and conducting Verification and Validation studies;
- Present data to management to aid in decision making on new assays and products.
Requirements:
- Ability to communicate technical results to a non-technical audience;
- Experience in the development of scientific software;
- Fluency at least 2 of the following: R, Perl, Python, Java, C/C++/C#
- Adept at working in interdisciplinary scientific teams;
- Experience in high-content data visualization/analysis (e.g. network analysis);
- Working knowledge of genomics, molecular biology, PCR, and sequencing technologies;
- Publications in related domains;
- Bachelor’s Degree in bioinformatics, statistics, computer science or mathematics with at least 5 years industry experience;
- Version Control with Git;
- Solid understanding of the foundations of statistical analysis and machine learning;
- 20 years experience in managing science performer work at DARPA, IARPA, NIH, DTRA, DoD, or BARDA;
- Strong written and verbal communication skills;
- PhD in a life sciences and/or bioinformatics domain;
- Experience with non-invasive prenatal testing methods and data desirable but not essential;
- Informatics expertise in synthetic biology, microbial genomics, pan-genome analysis, and shotgun fragment assembly.