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Applied Biosystems

Sr Scientist Bioinformatics (2240590)
Location: Silicon Valley/Peninsula, California - United States
Posted: 5/9/2012

Sr Scientist Bioinformatics

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">RESPONSIBILITIES </span></span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The Role is to support customers in their use of SOLiD Next Generation Sequencing System, to develop tools for next generation sequence analysis, and to perform data analysis. This involves working with customers and internal development teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues including computer clusters and software related to the data analysis and to analyze next-generation high-throughput sequencing experiments and their applications, such as gene expression, medical resequencing, epigenomic, and structural variation profiling studies. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Additional responsibilities may include: </span></span></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Training customers on their premises </span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Interacting on a regular basis with customers and collaborators to obtain or provide data; </span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Developing presentations depicting the results of analyses; </span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Establishing standard operating procedures, documentation, and scripts to generate custom reports; </span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Testing, characterization and integration of diverse third party bioinformatics algorithms; and the application of statistic, visualizationand data mining methods.</span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Working closely with customers to solve their bioinformatics challenges, which may include troubleshooting, problem-solving, scripting work to resolve issues</span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Using feedback from the customers to help the internal product management team prioritize requirements for future hardware and software development &ndash;</span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Working with the field support team to solve bioinformatics challenges </span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Creating protocols and applications notes to give guidelines on best practices</span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Assisting Field Sales team in preparing potential customers understanding next generation SOLiD bioinformatics </span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: black; text-align: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Assisting internal and external customers with IT and bioinformatics needs for data analysis</span></span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">REQUIREMENTS </span></span></span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The successful applicant will have 1-5 years of experience in bioinformatics and data analysis, relevant PhD and a proven track record in bioinformatics. &ndash;</span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The applicant should have experience with cluster computing including knowledge of resource management and job scheduling packages (such as PBS, LSF, or SGE). </span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">He/she will have a wide variety of demonstrated skills with C++, PERL, Python, Java, shell scripting, and relational database. </span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The ability to work in a fast moving interdisciplinary team will be necessary. </span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The ability to present and discuss issues and solutions to audiences with varying levels of experience will be necessary.</span></span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">&nbsp;</span></p>

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Job Capacity:Employee (full-time)
Minimum Education Level:Bachelor of Science
Visa Sponsorship: No
Related Industries:Biotechnology
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