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Northeastern University · 1 month ago

Bioinformatician

Boston, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$45/hr - $45/hr

3+ years exp

Northeastern University is seeking a Bioinformatician to collaborate with various research groups and contribute to understanding genetic origins of complex diseases. The role involves building ETL pipelines, writing Python and R code for data analysis, and participating in machine learning model development.

Education

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Building ETL pipelines for genomics/transcriptomics data from public databases and processing them with publicly available codes in python and R

Documenting the entire process and all the codes generated and maintaining structured and regular commits in a GitHub repository

Helped implement machine learning models and automate the processing of input data

Write reports/prepare slide decks describing work performed

Contribute to scientific manuscripts and grant proposals where appropriate

Qualification

BioinformaticsPythonRData pipelinesUnix OSMachine learningGitHubStatisticsGenomics databases

Required

A Master's degree (or equivalent)

A minimum of 3-4 years of experience working with data pipelines and data analysis

Proficiency in Python and R

Experience working in Unix OS and remote computing clusters

Demonstrable expertise in bioinformatics, especially genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and/or metabolomics

Good grasp of statistics

An ability to write clean and well-documented code

Work with GitHub repositories

Preferred

Experience working with genomics databases like ENCODE

Familiarity with RNA-seq, eCLIP, and other data

Benefits

Medical

Vision

Dental

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Wellness & life

Retirement

Commuting & transportation

Company

Northeastern University

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Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university with a distinctive, experience-driven approach to education and discovery.

Founded in 1898

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://www.northeastern.edu/cri/

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