Biologist/Bioinformatician Jobs

Description:

This contract position provides the opportunity to implement and deliver bioinformatics tools for a wide range of applications working with proteomics. The candidate will join a team focused on infrastructure developments for proteomics and collaboration with many research groups in Genentech, working with both bioinformatics and bench biology teams.

Responsibilities

gRED Research team is looking for a computational biologist/bioinformatician that can support them with developing Neoantigen prediction/prioritization algorithms.

(a) Minimum of a Master’s Degree in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Bioengineering or related sciences. PhD and post-doctoral experience preferred.

(b) Proficiency in Unix/Linux and in R/python.

(c) History of scientific authorship.

(d) Documented experience with omics data analysis and related bioinformatics tools and libraries.

(e) Good understanding of biological concepts and experimental methods commonly used in molecular biology and interest to learn more.

(f) Excellent communication, advanced English reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.

(g) Responsible and reliable; goal and task oriented. Able to work independently to answer scientific questions using public and private data sets.

MUST HAVE:

(i) NGS analysis (e.g. mutation calling, DNAseq/RNAseq)

(ii) Package development in R or Python (e.g. Bioconductor)

(iii) Single-cell analysis

Nice to have:

(i) Simulation/prediction pipelines (e.g. Neoantigen prediction)

(ii) Workflow orchestration (e.g. NextFlow)