Bioinformatics Engineer Position at City of Hope | MSc/ PhD Graduates Apply Online
City of Hope, a leading research center dedicated to advancing cancer, diabetes, and life-threatening illness treatments, is recruiting a Staff Scientist – Bioinformatics Engineer (Remote). This role focuses on developing bioinformatics pipelines for microbiome, immunotherapy, and cancer research, offering an opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge discoveries that transform patient care
- Job Posting: Staff Scientist – Bioinformatics Engineer
- Location: Duarte, CA
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement bioinformatics pipelines.
- Integrate pipelines into Snakemake workflow.
- Keep pipelines current.
- Test pipelines in large scale.
- Provide summary report and documentation of pipelines and results.
Qualifications:
- PhD or MSc. in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related field.
- Knowledgeable of Bioinformatics techniques, next generation sequencing data and pipelines.
- Ability to implement, develop and modify Bioinformatics pipelines.
- Fluent in scientific scripting languages such as R or Python and bash environment.
- Fluent in Snakemake.
- Strong communication skills.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with microbiome bioinformatics pipelines.
- Experience with whole genome sequencing (WGS), whole exome sequencing (WES), RNA sequencing (RNAseq) analysis, and calling of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and insertions/deletions (indels).
- Understanding concepts of molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, immunology.
- Understanding statistical analysis techniques for microbiome (alpha-diversity, beta-diversity, dimensionality reduction, clustering, regression models).
Why This Role?
This position offers the chance to directly impact breakthrough research in cancer, immunotherapy, and microbiome science while working remotely with one of the world’s leading medical research institutions, City of Hope. As a Staff Scientist – Bioinformatics Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of developing and optimizing cutting-edge bioinformatics pipelines that fuel life-saving discoveries. This role is ideal for candidates passionate about combining computational expertise with biology to accelerate progress in personalized medicine and transform patient care.
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