Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, NGS Pipelines
Ferris Genomics Inc.
- Saint Louis, MO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Developing and managing production NGS analysis pipelines that run on a Linux cluster
- Writing novel bioinformatics algorithms to analyze proprietary NGS data
- Using probabilistic and statistical methods and developing algorithms to decode genomics data
- Establishing disciplined coding and data management practices including source control, code review, automated testing and deployment, databases
- Collaborating across departments to identify and address analytical needs
- PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Engineering, or a related field
- 2+ years relevant industry experience
- Expert in NGS data processing and data analysis
- Expert Python programmer for analytics and visualization
- Experience with pipeline workflow systems (e.g., Snakemake, Nextflow, Cromwell)
- Experience analyzing large scale data with statistical methods
- Self-motivated with the ability to work with and support multiple groups across the organization
- Experience using and configuring cloud computing (e.g., AWS, Azure)
- Experience training machine learning models
- Experience working in a rapidly growing technology startup