Company Summary:
We are currently working with a Non Profit Foundation who are in need of a Bioinformatics/Sr Bioinformatics Engineer to come join the team for a short term project. This short term opportunity has remote capability.
The Bioinformatics Engineer will be responsible for:
Design, develop and operate computational pipelines for next-generation sequencing data
Develop/maintain a knowledge base of variants and annotations discovered in processing of samples
Develop new and/or improve upon existing algorithms for variant detection (SNPs and indels) and structural variant detection (CNVs, inversions and translocations)
You must be able to work on both large-scale projects and small custom tasks that span a wide variety of analysis problems
The Bioinformatics Engineer should have the following qualifications:
- 3+ years' work experience in research-and-development setting in bioinformatics
- Experience with next-generation sequencing data
- Experience in Linux/Unix cluster environment
- Advanced programming skills in Python
Familiarity with C++, Perl, Matlab and R is desirable.
Familiarity with databases - relational and noSQL - cloud computing and web services is desirable