Staff Scientist, Bioinformatics

Role Summary

Staff Scientist to join the Bioinformatics team supporting the early access program for proteomics analysis. You will design experiments with early users, troubleshoot, interpret results, and relay customer feedback to support platform improvements.

Responsibilities

• Catalyze the success of our earliest customers by deeply understanding their scientific goals and ensuring a smooth and productive experience with our platform.
• Be the bioinformatics leader on multiple (5+) customer-facing projects, managing relationships and delivering support during our upcoming early access program.
• Engage with customers in project planning and experimental design to ensure they are positioned for success and understand the capabilities of our platform.
• Oversee and conduct bioinformatics analyses for our customers including analyzing proteomics data, troubleshooting unexpected results, building visualizations and analyses, and crafting clear presentations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with our internal R&D team by relaying scientific feedback from customers to support ongoing platform development.
• Manage project timelines and deliverables for customer-facing analyses.

Qualifications

• A passion for biology and a commitment to delivering exceptional customer experience.
• PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biochemistry, or related field with 10+ years of experience, or a Master‚Äôs degree and 15+ years of experience in academic/industry settings.
• Demonstrated ability to conceive and execute novel experimental design, applying bioinformatics methods to address complex biological questions.
• Ability to communicate technical content clearly and effectively, including to audiences without a bioinformatics background.
• Proficiency with Python and common scientific libraries such as numpy, pandas, scipy, and matplotlib.
• Experience with version control and the Github ecosystem.
• Familiarity with cloud computing (e.g. AWS) and relational databases (e.g. SQL) (preferred).
• Experience working with proteomics data (preferred).
• Experience with project leadership or strategic/alliance partnerships with pharmaceutical or academic collaborators (preferred).

Skills

• Bioinformatics analysis
• Experimental design and project planning
• Scientific communication
• Data visualization
• Collaborative cross-functional teamwork
• Customer-focused problem solving

Education

• PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biochemistry, or related field (or Master‚Äôs with extensive industry/academic experience).

Additional Requirements

• None specified beyond the listed qualifications.