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Bioinformatics Scientist II - Leading Biopharma - Contract

  • Location: San Francisco
  • Salary: US$60 - US$65.00 per hour per hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted almost 2 years ago

  • Sector: Life Sciences
  • Contact: Amber Mitchell
  • Duration: 6 months
  • Expiry Date: 11 June 2022
  • Job Ref: JN -052022-470481

We are seeking a highly motivated Bioinformatics Scientist II to join the team of a leading Biotechnology client of ours. This opportunity is located in Foster City, CA, and is offered on an initial 6 month contract basis. The successful candidate will conduct computational analysis of large datasets to support pipeline programs and discovery projects across therapeutics areas of oncology, inflammation, fibrosis and virology.


Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with RDS and IT colleagues to enable cloud-based data management platform
  • Develop and maintain workflows to enable ingestion, access and analysis of data to accelerate discovery and enable decisions across research groups
  • Collaborate with IT to maintain compute infrastructure that allows RDS scientists to process and analyze internally generated and/or externally acquired NGS and other large datasets

Qualifications:

  • A master's or PhD in bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Data Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or MS related discipline is required with 3+ yrs relevant Bioinformatics experience
  • Proficient in statistical and programming languages, such as R, Python, etc. is required
  • Experience in working with NGS data and developing/implementing genomic pipelines and workflows


Please apply with your most up to date resume to be considered.

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