Programmer Analyst I

The University of Southern California (USC) Center for Translational Exposomics (CTER) is a leading interdisciplinary research center focused on understanding how environmental exposures impact human health across the lifespan. The Center integrates environmental science epidemiology multi-omics technologies and data science to advance discovery and translation in environmental health.

CTERs collaborative environment brings together researchers from medicine engineering public health and data science to analyze complex high-dimensional datasets including environmental exposure measurements metabolomics genomics and clinical data. The Center is committed to developing scalable data-driven approaches that translate scientific discoveries into actionable public health and policy solutions.

The USC Center for Translational Exposomics is seeking a Programming Analyst I to support the development and implementation of data systems and analytical pipelines for environmental and multi-omics research.

Key Responsibilities

The Programming Analyst I will contribute to the design development and maintenance of data infrastructure and analytical tools supporting large-scale environmental and omics datasets.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop implement and maintain data processing pipelines for environmental exposure metabolomics and other high-dimensional datasets
• Support integration and harmonization of multi-source data including cohort clinical and laboratory-based datasets
• Collaborate with investigators and research staff to translate scientific questions into reproducible computational workflows
• Optimize data workflows for performance scalability and reproducibility across projects
• Write test and maintain clean well-documented code following best practices in scientific computing
• Assist in database development and management including structured and semi-structured data systems
• Contribute to data quality control validation and standardization efforts across studies
• Support visualization and reporting of analytical results for scientific publications and presentations
• Participate in collaborative team environments communicating progress challenges and solutions effectively

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science data science bioinformatics public health or a related field
• Preferred of 12 years of experience in programming data analysis or scientific computing
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. Python R)
• Experience working with large complex datasets
• Familiarity with data processing cleaning and transformation workflows
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and/or data management systems
• Understanding of version control (e.g. Git) and reproducible research practices
• Ability to work collaboratively in interdisciplinary research teams
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience working with environmental health epidemiologic or omics datasets (e.g. metabolomics genomics)
• Familiarity with statistical or bioinformatics workflows
• Experience with high-performance or cloud computing environments (e.g. AWS)
• Experience with data visualization tools and scientific reporting

The hourly rate pay range for this position is $36.55 $46.67. When extending an offer of employment the University of Southern California considers factors such as the scope and responsibilities of the position the candidates work experience education/training key skills internal peer equity grant funding and external market conditions.

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