Immediate need for a talented Bioinformatics Scientist - III . This is a 12+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in San Diego, CA (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID:24-54532
Pay Range: $80 - $89/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
- Use computational and statistical methods to stratify patients and develop Companion Diagnostic algorithms.
- Conduct in-depth analyses to uncover the key biological functions and disease mechanisms driving disease subtypes.
- 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.
- Note: 100% onsite role.
- Remote working candidates will not be considered.
?Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- Key Skills:NGS (Next Generation Sequencing), R, Python, RNA-seq, machine-learning/AI, Immunology, computational biology, bioinformatics
- 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. Expertise with single-cell RNAseq and spatial transcriptomics is a plus.
- Basic understanding of disease biology and molecular/cellular mechanisms in immunology.
- Expertise in contemporary machine-learning/AI methods is a plus.
- 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.
Our client is a leading Pharmaceutical Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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