Job Opportunity: Bioinformatics Scientist, Labcorp
Bioinformatics Scientist will be responsible for assisting research and development team in a collaborative and multi-disciplinary effort in developing and validating OmniSeq’s molecular diagnostic and next generation sequencing based bioinformatics analysis pipelines, along with playing an important role in additional research related projects in the field of clinical oncology.
Bioinformatics scientist will interact extensively with members of bioinformatics team, software development team, wet-lab experts and clinical pathologists. She/He will be expected to utilize NGS data analytical skills including but not limited to analytical validation, QC, exploratory analytics, hypothesis testing, reporting/presenting scientific results in a comprehensible manner.
Essential Duties:
- Support the analytical validation analysis and reports for ongoing and future NGS assays.
- Contribute to design, development and implementation of computational workflows for internal R&D goals.
- Support research teams using cutting edge data analysis and statistical approaches in order to investigate complex genomic datasets including DNA-seq, RNA-Seq, TCR- repertoire, Microbiome, etc.
- Collaborate with bioinformatics pipeline engineers and software development teams to design and analyze clinical datasets.
- Present scientific findings, results and brainstorm ideas collaboratively with the scientific teams.
Requirements:
- PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biostatistics or closely related fields. PhD with 0-2 years’ experience or Master with at least 2 years’ experience in a NGS field.
- Experience with NGS data analysis required.
- Industrial experience preferred but not required.
- Proficient in programing languages such as Python, R and shell script required.
- Proficiency is statistical analysis is required.
- Demonstrate strong scientific understanding of cancer genomics and show a capability for independent and critical thinking.
- Confident, proactive individual capable of taking the initiative and driving to results.
- Solid organizational skills and independent drive to sustain productivity and meet deadlines.
If interested, apply here