What are the responsibilities and job description for the Bioinformatics Scientist position at bcc?
Overview
We are currently searching for a Bioinformatics Scientist to provide support to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This opportunity is full-time, and it is on site at NIH in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.
We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, health care, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!
Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain bioinformatics pipelines for various genomics applications.
- Develop web-based in-house database interface.
- Implement and utilize workflows for next generation sequencing (i.e., QC and analysis).
- Participate in innovation and development of analytical solutions.
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team.
Qualifications
- BA/BSC with six (6 ) years of experience or MA/MSC with four (4 ) years of experience.
- Experience must be from a related field (i.e., Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Computer Science, or related discipline).
- Programming experience using relevant packages (i.e., Python, Perl, R).
- Detailed understanding of Illumina based NGS methods and tools.
- Experience troubleshooting and exploring various existing scientific analysis tools.
- HPC clusters and use of command line tools and scripting experience.
- Working knowledge of existing tools to analyze NGS data.
- Experience with relational database design and maintenance (i.e., MySQL, Postgres) is a plus.
