Bioinformatics Scientist
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Position Summary:
Guardant is seeking a highly motivated and collaborative Bioinformatics Scientist to join our Clinical Genomics team. This role plays a critical part in the ongoing development and improvement of clinical DNA and RNA-based cancer diagnostics. You will leverage large-scale sequencing data (DNA RNA epigenetics) to help shape cutting-edge assay technologies drive innovation in genomic analysis pipelines and ensure clinical robustness in data interpretation. Your contributions will directly impact patients lives through enhanced clinical reporting and biomarker discovery.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design implement and optimize computational methods and pipelines to analyze DNA and RNA NGS data (e.g. somatic mutation detection structural variation transcript expression methylation).
- Collaborate cross-functionally with research scientists clinical operations and external partners (academic and industry) to explore clinically actionable insights and publish findings.
- Systematically apply new bioinformatics innovations internal and external to solve unmet needs and improve the performance and scalability of Guardants diagnostics.
- Develop and maintain robust reproducible scripts and analysis pipelines using Python R C and/or shell scripting.
- Provide expert analytic support to clinical teams operating in highly regulated environments.
- Present analysis results effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organization.
Qualifications :
- M.S. with 5 years of industry experience or Ph.D. in Bioinformatics Computational Biology Statistics Biological Sciences Cancer Biology Genetics Genomics or related field.
- Proven scientific reputation as demonstrated by scientific publication and/or contribution to successful product development in the biotech industry.
- Strong background in human genetics and cancer biology.
- Deep understanding of modern tools and pipelines in genomics for processing and analysis of primary data including somatic and structural variant calling.
- Experience with next-generation sequencing data analysis (DNA RNA or epigenetic analysis) using Python R C and/or shell scripting.
- Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills.
Work Environment:
The employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. The majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however there may be exposure to high noise levels fumes and biohazard material in the laboratory environment.
Additional Information :
Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.
For positions based in Palo Alto CA or Redwood City CA the base salary range for this full-time position is $109480 to $150540. The range does not include benefits and if applicable bonus commission or equity.
Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills experience and relevant education or training. If you are selected to move forward the recruiting team will provide details specific to the factors above.
Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however there may be exposure to high noise levels fumes and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
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