TITLE: Bioinformatics Engineer – Single Cell

LOCATION: Philadelphia area

*Remote would be given on a case by case situation

Contract length: EOY – with high possibility to extend

THE COMPANY:

A leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical organization. You will join a team that is focused on medical research and product development of therapies for disease.

THE ROLE

You will sit on the Data Engineering and Platforms team, partnering with the Data Science organization, multiple therapeutic areas, functions, and vendor teams to facilitate generation of insights from high-dimensional omics datasets. As a Bioinformatics Engineer, you should be familiar with bioinformatic pipelines, tools, and algorithms and have strong knowledge of Single Cell datasets.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain single-cell data processing pipelines in partnership with computational biologists in support of key scientific objectives
• Integrate single-cell datasets into atlases focused on specific scientific questions
• Curate, process and analyze single-cell datasets and present results to relevant stakeholders as required
• Develop and support visualization tools to facilitate interpretation of data and analyses

Qualifications

• A Ph.D. OR a Master’s degree with at least three years of relevant experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, engineering, or immunology is required.
• Strong experience with Python or R programming language is required.
• Familiarity with standard bioinformatics workflows and algorithms is required.
• Experience processing omics (transcriptomics, proteomics, genotypes, etc.) or other high-dimensional data is required.
• Experience analyzing single-cell sequencing data is strongly preferred.
• Prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry or a related field is preferred.
• Familiarity with AI/ML techniques and approaches is preferred.
• Experience with cloud computing is preferred.
• Experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL) is preferred.
• Experience with NextFlow pipelines is a plus.

COMPENSATION:

Hourly rate: $60-$70+ per hour – this is based on levels of experience

Healthcare, Dental, and Vision insurance is offered

401k match

HOW TO APPLY: Please register your interest by applying via the Apply link on this page.