Senior Associate Scientist, Bioinformatics

Role Summary

Senior Associate Scientist, Bioinformatics. Role focuses on analyzing and communicating results from large NGS datasets, developing and evaluating sequencing pipelines, and contributing to a bioinformatics team within a RNAi therapeutics company.

Responsibilities

• Run and develop proprietary Next Generation Sequencing analysis pipelines for short- and long-read technologies.
• Communicate results of computational analyses to interdisciplinary teams of scientists.
• Investigate state-of-the-art statistical methods and omics tools for novel sequencing technologies (e.g., RNA modification measures, proteogenomics).
• Assist in the interpretation of results from complex scientific experiments.
• Professionally maintain code in a version-controlled repository.
• Contribute to our data science culture.

Qualifications

• M.S. in a quantitative discipline, or B.S. with 2+ years of equivalent professional experience.
• Coding capability in R and Python.
• Prior experience with the analysis of omics-based biological datasets; familiarity with NGS and differential expression analysis tools preferred.
• Experience with statistical methods and comfort reading and understanding scientific publications is preferred.
• Drive to learn and understand new sequencing-based technologies, and to develop and troubleshoot downstream analysis pipelines.
• Comfort working with Unix systems and cloud-based computing environments and tools (e.g., AWS, Docker).
• Knowledge of, or interest in learning, the fundamentals of RNAi biology.
• Experience communicating and presenting scientific results, and collaborating with colleagues with varied skill sets.

Skills

• Bioinformatics analysis
• NGS data processing
• Statistical methods
• Programming in R and Python
• Version control and collaboration

Education

• M.S. in a quantitative discipline, or B.S. with relevant experience as listed in Qualifications