Swedish · 5 hours ago
Associate Bioinformatics Scientist
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry Level
$39.45/hr - $61.24/hr
2+ years expSwedish is a leading healthcare organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of patients. The Associate Bioinformatics Scientist will support bioinformatics analysis and interpretation of molecular and genomic data, contributing to immuno-oncology projects.
Health CareInformation TechnologyMedicalNon Profit
Responsibilities
Providing comprehensive bioinformatics support for the analysis and interpretation of advanced, high throughput molecular, genomic and clinical data types including gene expression, imaging, electronic medical records, etc
Develop and apply bioinformatics methods and software tools for analysis and integration with clinical information
Perform tasks to reduce and consolidate data output to help interpret and prioritize findings for numerous immuno-oncology focused projects
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Biology
Master's Degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Biology --or--
5 years of equivalent professional experience in lieu of Master's Degree
2 years of experience related to bioinformatics work in a clinical laboratory or experience in academia, biotechnology, or other healthcare field (preferably involving next generation sequence data analysis)
Significant computational experience
First-hand experience in clinical informatics and/or NGS analysis and methods as well as the computing infrastructure and data management methods
First-hand multi-parametric data mining experience on expression, copy number and profiling datasets for target identification and biomarker discovery. For example, multivariate analysis; dimensionality reduction methods; parametric and non-parametric statistical methods; Bayesian statistics; pattern recognition or classification methods
First-hand experience at integrating publicly or commercially available genetic, genomic, and interaction datasets with novel experimental data to identify testable hypotheses
Proven experience and success in a team-oriented environment
Proven success in independent effort and delivering high quality data with biological relevance in a team environment
Preferred
Experience with the following:
Clinical data analysis/Large dataset analysis in R
Analyzing next generation sequencing data (DNA-seq, RNA-seq, etc.)
Commonly used database and bioinformatics tools for NGS data analysis (e.g.) bedtools, SAMtools, IGV, ANNOVAR, Bowtie, GATK, ChimeraScan, UCSC Genome Browser, Galaxy, SoftGenetics, CLC bio, TopHat, etc.)
Web framework (e.g. Django, Sinatra, Rails or others)
HTML/CSS, Javascript and SQL on NoSQL databases
Benefits
Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching
Health care benefits (medical, dental, vision)
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues)
Voluntary benefits
Well-being resources
Company
Swedish
Providence and Swedish have been caring for the Puget Sound region, together, for a decade.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.1MKey Investors
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan
2024-03-18Grant· $0.1M
Leadership Team
Elizabeth Wako
President and CEO of Swedish Health Services
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