What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate position at Compass Consulting?
Our client is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions.
They are among the world's leading biotech companies, with multiple products on the market and a promising development pipeline.
Position Overview :
Seeking a bioinformatics associate to serve a critical role on an internal project. This work will enhance our understanding of our vast collection of molecular data and will facilitate new downstream capabilities not possible without its implementation.
You will be responsible for organizing internal data, collecting external data, implementing (and potentially enhancing) bioinformatics pipelines, and leading specific downstream analyses after the data is fully processed.
Responsibilities :
- Develop systems for processing large amounts of internal data with established
- pipelines.
- Locate useful external datasets and work with data ingest team to efficiently bring
- the public datasets in-house.
- Communicate with BRAID and Data Management team members to ensure all
- data is being handled properly and efficiently.
- Organize the storage and management of the raw and processed data.
- Lead specific downstream analysis tasks and produce figures that can be used in
- final presentation of project.
- Document all processes and maintain clear and detailed records of the data
- handling and analysis steps.
Requirements :
- Hands on experience working with NGS bioinformatics pipelines.
- Familiarity with Python and data organization packages (e.g. pandas).
- Proficiency with UNIX / Linux operating system.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Enthusiastic about working in a scientific environment, especially one focused on
- drug discovery and development.
- Have a flexible learning mindset and be able to work in a fluid and dynamic
- environment.
- problems to peers, users and leadership.
Additional Requirements :
- Experience with CellRanger and 10X scRNA-seq data processing.
- Familiarity with workflow languages such as WDL or NextFlow.
- Knowledge of basic machine learning concepts and experience with scikit-learn
- and PyTorch.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud) for
- large-scale data processing.
- Understanding of single-cell RNA-seq data analysis techniques and tools.
- Proficiency with version control systems such as Git.
Last updated : 2024-08-05
Salary : $28 - $66