Bioinformatician

Key Skills

Bioinformatics, Biomedical Imaging, Data science techniques, Design, Environmental, Machine learning techniques, Statistics

Job Description

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have proven experience in managing and independently executing complex bioinformatics tasks in the frame of Bioinformatics Workbench project. The role’s responsibilities will include:

• Owning and leading various projects, serving as a subject matter expert.
• Developing and implementing bioinformatics tools and pipelines in cloud environment.
• Collaborating with DFCI software engineering and data science teams as well as interacting with external cloud and other technology vendors.
• Meeting, consulting, and providing computational and informatics support to various DFCI scientists and independent faculty members in designing and executing key biomedical projects.
• Collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and integrating complex biomedical data.
• Delivering results for projects and generating relevant reports.
• Working as a part of the broader team to identify and implement longer-term solutions that will improve quality, speed and efficacy of our current projects and programs through evaluating and benchmarking new software tools and pipeline development.
• Contributing expertise to DFCI software code base and communities of practice.

Qualifications

Minimum Education:

Bachelor’s degree required in a STEM field. Master’s degree or PhD strongly preferred in bioinformatics, medical informatics, computational biology, statistics, computer science/engineering, or a related quantitative field.

Minimum Education:

3 Years of experience required; Master’s degree with 1 year experience required; PhD with 0 years.

• Deep bioinformatics skills at the interface between bioinformatics programming and understanding of biological and clinical problems.
• Experience in analysis of the next generation sequencing data, e.g. WXS/WGS, RNA-Seq, etc; experience in single-cell and/or ctDNA data analysis is a plus.
• Working knowledge of IA and machine learning approaches used in bioinformatics research
• Experience in one or more areas of cancer research, including solid tumors, hematologic malignancies, patient-derived cancer models, biomarker discovery, etc. is a major plus.
• Excellent communication and effective problem-solving skills, track record in serving a variety of diverse customers and projects.
• Proven ability to work independently, prioritize, and manage people if needed, within an environment with evolving priorities.

At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are equally committed to diversifying our faculty and staff. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and diverse professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.