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Product Specialist Bioinformatics
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer.
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Product Specialist Bioinformatics Clinical Sequencing Division
Onsite role
Discover Impactful Work
This Bioinformatics Product Specialist role provides an outstanding opportunity for a Bioinformatician with a curiosity about working in product support at a global level to deliver outstanding data analysis support for nextgeneration sequencing platforms. This role is uniquely positioned within the product management team and provides insight to the product roadmap.
In this role you will work as a vital link between customers field support teams software product managers and internal bioinformatics development teams to resolve issues related to the usage of software products and interpretation of results.
If you have experience of working in the biotechnology industry in a technical or customer support role or have meaningful experience in academia this is an excellent opportunity to build on your current abilities and learn about how genomics labs across the world analyze nextgeneration sequencing data.
A Day in the life
Work with our global field support colleagues to help our customers with their software and bioinformatics challenges with an emphasis on gene panel sequencing. This may include troubleshooting problemsolving customizing analysis pipelines to resolve issues and present data in the best light
Act as a link between the field teams and internal development teams to identify and resolve advanced customer cases
Capture feedback from customers to help the product management team prioritize requirements for future hardware and software development
Build training materials and run training sessions for our field teams.
Develop a deep understanding of our software analysis pipelines algorithms and system set up
Participate in reviewing prerelease software
Keys to Success
Education
BS required in bioinformatics molecular biology biochemistry computer science or equivalent Masters or PhD (preferred)
Experience
Minimum 3 years of confirmed experience in bioinformatics and data analysis. Practical experience with opensource bioinformatics tools and wide knowledge of genomics applications are especially useful
Previous experience in data analysis of nextgeneration sequencing data is required
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
Ability to present bioinformatics issues and solutions to audiences with varying levels of experience is critical.
Previous experience working with clinical NGS lab customers would be a distinct advantage.
Previous experience using Linux and writing scripts or other code would be an advantage
Looking for a selfstarter who is comfortable working in a fastpaced interdisciplinary team
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $100000.00$133000.00.This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company team and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on which includes:
A choice of national medical and dental plans and a national vision plan including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO) 10 paid holidays annually paid parental leave 3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave) accident and life insurance and short and longterm disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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Full-Time