Scientist III -- 446135 : COMP BIOLOGY at OQSIE

As an active team member of the Computational Biology (CompBio) research group at the client US research facility in Ridgefield, CT. The successful candidate will contribute to drug discovery efforts through analysis of multiple disease-relevant data sets, as well as development of core informatics pipelines and data organization.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Strong scientific understanding and experience in bioinformatics
• Experience in pharmaceutical research a plus
• Experience in machine learning, especially deep learning a plus
• Design, implement and/or deploy NGS data analysis workflows for data processing, visualization, integration and mining to support novel therapeutic target identification and disease biomarker discovery
• Apply and develop innovative analysis approaches when standard methods are not adequate
• Interpret and present analysis results to coworkers and collaborators
• Follow relevant scientific literature to ensure use of optimal methods and understand emerging practices across the field
• Communicates own work effectively orally and in writing; contributes to writing protocols, procedures, and technical reports
• Reports and treats data with a high level of integrity and ethics
• Complies with applicable regulations; Maintains proper records in accordance with SOPs and policies

Skills:

• Programming experience with two or more programming languages including: Python, R, C/C++, Java, or MATLAB
• Two year experience of bioinformatics data analysis
• Good understand of disease biology
• Ability to develop machine learning models

Education:

PhD/Master degree from an accredited institution with experience in a related scientific discipline (Computer Science, Genomics, Biostatistics or Bioinformatics preferred) OR Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution with three-plus (3+) years of experience in a STEM discipline.