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Bioinformatics Data Engineer - San Diego CA
Where the Chemistry Happens
Become a member of our interdisciplinary and agile team within our Digitalization unit for Biotechnology Research. Our mission is to explore and improve enzyme function at the molecular level to address real-world problems. In our team ware developing the scientific software needed by researchers in San Diego and other international sites to simplify their everyday workflow and foster their success.
As a Bioinformatics data engineer and developer you will closely collaborate with scientists to understand end to end lab workflows and help to abstract these into data models and software processes. Your expertise and direct interaction with the scientific team will be a principal component of our in-house app development that you and the team will be leading. You are a self-driven expert that is comfortable working in a semi-remote environment with international stakeholders.
Formula for success
Leveraging your education (Master's in Computer Science/Bioinformatics/Computational Biology with 2yrs relevent industry experience OR a PhD) you will closely collaborate with scientists to understand end to end lab workflows and help to abstract these into data models and software processes.
Your experience with biological lab processes Python development Unix based systems and standard development tooling like Git CI/CD pipelines will enable you to develop the scientific software needed by researchers in San Diego and other international sites to simplify their everyday workflow and foster their success. Advanced knowledge of Python (Numpy SciPy etc) is a plus.
As a self-driven expert with excellent problem solving & communication skills familiar with Scrum/Kanban teams and bi-weekly sprints you will work in a full remote environment with international stakeholders interacting with the scientific team to become an essential component of our in-house app development that you and the team will be leading.
You will also be applying your experience with efficient data storage and retrieval in SQL / NoSQL databases.
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Job: ITSE - Information Technology & Services
Organization: RGD/BI-Digitalization # White Biotechnology-63025360
Title: Bioinformatics Data Engineer (Hybrid)
Location: CA-San Diego
Requisition ID: 2202068
