Senior Data Scientist - Hematopoietic Biology & Malignancy

Education Required: Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Computational Biology, or related field.

Education Preferred: Individuals with a PhD in Biology, Computational Biology, Computer Science, or related areas are encouraged to apply. Proven track record of publications, excellent written and oral communication skills are required.

Experience Required: Five years of experience in scientific software or industry programming with a concentration in scientific computing. With Master's degree, three years experience required. With PhD, one year of experience required.

Experience Preferred: The ideal candidate will have formal training and experience in analysis of different NGS datasets (bulk RNA-seq, Chip-Seq, Ribo-Seq) and a wide range of single-cell sequencing profiling data. The candidate will have experience in the creation or use of genome assembly, transcriptional isoform annotation, gene modeling, RNA-seq based fusion detection and/or spliced alignments algorithms. Prior knowledge of cancer biology or immunology is a plus. Proficiency in scripting, statistical computing and use of high-performance computing environments is expected. Software development experience is desirable but not required.  Must thrive in an academic/professional atmosphere, where interdisciplinary teams are central to project success.

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