Staff Scientist - Bioinformatics Engineer (Remote) Job at City of Hope, Duarte, CA

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  • City of Hope
  • Duarte, CA

Job Description

Join the forefront of groundbreaking research at City Hopewhere 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.

To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE .

Job Tags

Full time, Fixed term contract, Work experience placement, Remote work,

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