Scientist, Bioinformatics

We're hiring Bioinformatics Scientists with strong backgrounds in computational biology and data science. A deep understanding of both biology and machine learning is required. The position's goals are varied, but include using personalized biomarker discovery and integrative-omics to diagnose "hard-to-diagnose" diseases.

In this position at ICR, you'll get to:

• Conduct complex bioinformatics analyses on large genomics, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and lipidomic datasets from biofluids and cell lines
• Engage in multi-omic integration under a personalized medicine paradigm
• Discover personalized biomarkers to aid in unraveling complex and obscure phenotypes

Please apply if you have:

• An MS or PhD in a Biomedical Science and extensive experience with computational biology, bioinformatics and data science
• Experience incorporating AI tools into bioinformatics workflows
• Expertise in multi-omics integration, systems biology, network medicine, precision and personalized medicine
• Expertise in perturbation analysis and pathway enrichment analysis (eg. KEGG, Reactome, MSigDB)
• Machine learning skills (eg. LR, SVM, RF, XGBoost) and extensive experience with: Bayesian/probabilistic modeling, network-based sample similarity algorithms and factorization methods, data cleaning, such as batch effect removal and imputation, and data transformation and visualization
• A solid statistical foundation
• Expertise programming machine learning and statistical pipelines, preferably in Python
• GitHub repository showing your work, preferably linked to publications
• Even if you don't meet all of these criteria, please apply anyway

Ideally, you'll also have experience with:

• iOS app development
• R programming
• Linux environments
• Outlier detection

And you'll need:

• Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship
• A can-do attitude and a friendly, easygoing personality

If you don't combine your cover letter with your CV or resume when you apply through LinkedIn, after you apply please send your cover letter only to: [email protected] with "Cover [Your name]" as the Subject line.

Position title and compensation are commensurate with experience.

The compensation ranges listed below are starting ranges.

Starting base salary range: $155,000/yr - $230,000/yr

Starting bonus range: $10,000/yr - $40,000/yr