Staff Scientist, Bioinformatics
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Job Location:
Ann Arbor, MI - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
08-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Work Schedule
Standard Office Hours (40/wk)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D at Thermo Fisher Scientific youll help solve some of the worlds toughest challenges from giving cancer patients hope ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.
Location/Division Specific Information
The position is based in Ann Arbor MI and is part of the extended Bioinformatics team within the Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing Division. The mission of this business unit is to develop NGS-based solutions to support applications in oncology and other medical fields.
Discover Impactful Work:
Join a team of hard-working engineers and scientists passionate about bringing actionable insights to precision oncology. The successful candidate will work collaboratively in a matrix environment to develop data analysis strategies to address key questions about cancer for our internal and external customers. Applications include diagnostics target and biomarker discovery indication selection and clinical development strategies.
A day in the Life:
Lead or support development of new sequencing products designing experiments and interpreting results to ensure performance meets customer requirements.
Develop new algorithms and bioinformatics workflows translating product requirements into code testing performance implementing improvements and integrating into production. software.
Understand and follow product development process guidelines around design development and testing.
Provide support for on-market products by troubleshooting customer issues and implementing and testing workflow improvements.
Work cross-functionally with molecular biology scientists software engineers quality regulatory and product management.
Keys to Success:
Education
PhD in bioinformatics computational biology statistics computer science or biological sciences with 2 years of experience (or MS with 5 years).
Experience
Experience analyzing oncology data is a plus.
Proven knowledge of next-generation sequencing analysis with a good understanding of software engineering and data analysis principles.
Proficiency in Python and a statistical package (e.g. R) and shell-scripting are required. Experience with bioinformatics tools (e.g. samtools picard GATK) is a plus. Familiarity with public genomic databases (COSMIC ClinVar cBioPortal etc.) is required.
Knowledge Skills Abilities
Strong drive for problem-solving and continuous improvement with the perseverance to work through obstacles.
Effective communication and documentation skills including presenting scientific results to a multi-disciplinary and geographically distributed team.
Ideal candidates will demonstrate a record of research productivity through scientific publications conference presentations or patents and have experience with product development.
Ability to work across different cross-functional teams.
Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration annual incentive plan bonus healthcare and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative forward-thinking organization and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity intensity involvement and innovation!
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Bioinformatics
- Biochemistry
- Utility Locating
- Assays
- Research Experience
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Sensors
- Signal Processing
- Matlab
- Research & Development
- Molecular Biology
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