Bioinformatician I
Boston, MA - USA
Job Summary
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals including doctors nurses business people tech experts researchers and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit we support patient care research teaching and community service striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
The Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital is looking for exceptional Bioinformatician to join the Systems Genetics and Genomics group to advance research in respiratory disease with a focus on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) the third leading cause of death in the United States. Our group has led some of the largest and most comprehensive genetic and multi-omit studies in this disease including identifying novel genetic associations and performing functional studies to identify new disease pathways. Bioinformaticians will work with an interdisciplinary team consisting of geneticists and genetic epidemiologists biostatisticians computational biologists and translational scientists andQualifications
Qualifications:
BS degree and 1-3 years programming experience developing software solutions or MS in Bioinformatics Computer Science or biological engineering.
Applicants will have understanding programming with agile development methods.
SKILLS/ ABILITIES/ COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:
- Ability to apply statistical and machine learning techniques to solve big data problems
- Experience in Programing with MATLAB R Python and/or Java that focus on computational biological applications.
- Experience with common bioinformatics and genomic browsers NCBI Genbank UCSC
- Understanding the user of bioinformatics tools including common NGS tools BWA samtools GATK
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative and intellectually challenging environment. Perform the technology watch;
contribute to the strategy and evolution of existing services as well as future architecture evolution around communication
platforms
- Knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu)
- Must work independently
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
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$75275.20 - $109553.60/AnnualGrade
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About Company
Patients at Mass General have access to a vast network of physicians, nearly all of whom are Harvard Medical School faculty and many of whom are leaders within their fields.