Bioinformatics Scientist – III

Job Description

Job Summary:

• We are looking for a contractor with extensive experience in computational biology and join our immunology analytics team in Translational Genome Analytics, San Diego.

Responsibilities:

• Use computational methods to identify molecular subtypes with unmet need in immune mediated diseases.
• Conduct in-depth analyses to uncover the key biological functions and disease mechanisms driving disease subtypes.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to pinpoint potential therapeutic targets.
• Contribute to accurately represent key disease states in model systems and other validation scenarios.
• Work closely with discovery immunology teams in the iterative process of validation of therapeutic candidates and/or mechanistic hypotheses.
• Summarize your findings and report conclusions to Client stakeholders.

Education:

• Master’s degree with 4+ years of experience in computational biology, bioinformatics or related fields.
• Advance degree- PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, or related fields.

Required experience and skills:

• Experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industries is a plus.
• Advanced skills in a high-level programming language such as R or Python for data analysis and visualization.
• Expertise in downstream analysis for common NGS data types, such as WGS/WES/panel-seq, bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNAseq and spatial transcriptomics (experience in building NGS pipelines is not required but is a plus).
• Basic understanding of disease biology and molecular/cellular mechanisms in immunology.
• Expertise in network and systems biology is required.
• Expertise in contemporary machine-learning/AI methods is a plus.

Personality:

• Problem-solving and collaboration skills, with rigorous and creative thinking.
• Excellent communication, data interpretation presentation, and visualization skills.
• Fluent in written and verbal English.
• Adaptable and flexible.