Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Careers Integrated Resources Inc
San Diego, CA
Job Title: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Location: San Diego, CA
Job Duration: 12 months+
Pay Range: $100.50/hr. on w2
Top Skills:
We are looking for a contractor with extensive experience in computational biology and join our immunology analytics team in Translational Genome Analytics, San Diego.
· Use computational methods to identify molecular subtypes with unmet need in immune mediated diseases.
· Conduct in-depth analyses to uncover the key biological functions and disease mechanisms driving disease subtypes.
· Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to pinpoint potential therapeutic targets.
· Contribute to accurately represent key disease states in model systems and other validation scenarios.
· Work closely with discovery immunology teams in the iterative process of validation of therapeutic candidates and/or mechanistic hypotheses.
· Summarize your findings and report conclusions to Client stakeholders.
Education:
· Minimum qualification: Master’s degree with 4+ years of experience in computational biology, bioinformatics or related fields.
· Advance degree- PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, or related fields.
Required experience and skills:
· Experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industries is a plus.
· Advanced skills in a high-level programming language such as R or Python for data analysis and visualization.
· Expertise in downstream analysis for common NGS data types, such as WGS/WES/panel-seq, bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNAseq and spatial transcriptomics (experience in building NGS pipelines is not required but is a plus).
· Basic understanding of disease biology and molecular/cellular mechanisms in immunology.
· Expertise in network and systems biology is required.
· Expertise in contemporary machine-learning/AI methods is a plus.