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Psomagen · 1 day ago

Senior BI Scientist

Rockville, MD, US

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$76K/yr - $90K/yr

3+ years exp

Psomagen Inc. is a rapidly growing biotechnology company renowned for providing a variety of genomics-based molecular assay solutions to research and clinical communities. They are seeking a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist to lead the development and management of bioinformatic analysis pipelines for Next-Generation Sequencing services.

BiopharmaBiotechnologyHealth CareMedical

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Generate analytical pipelines and perform data analysis using the Illumina Dragen suite

Develop and maintain reproducible NGS data analysis pipelines in the AWS environment, ensuring the reliability and scalability of workflows

Develop HTML-based data analysis reports for customer, summarizing and visualizing raw and analyzed datasets

Supervise bioinformatics team members, including task delegation, performance evaluation, and continuous professional development of junior team members

Support research projects, including managing large amounts of data, monitoring, and running the developed pipelines

Generate the documentation related to the pipelines (Reports, README, etc)

Stay abreast of current developments public bioinformatics tools, pipelines and databases

Participation in customer-facing discussions with field application scientists to support business development/customer services activities

Planning and writing various ad-hoc scripts and visualization scripts to analyze specific data and interpret results

Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions while resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways

Research independently within a team environment to develop and improve genomics analysis solutions

Qualification

BioinformaticsNext-Generation SequencingBashRPythonNextFlowLinuxHPC systemsBioinformatics toolsGenomics databaseCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsPresentation skillsTeamworkDetail orientedLeadership

Required

MS with 3+ years industry experience or Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Biology, Genetics, or similar field is required

Strong knowledge and proficiency in Bash, R, Python, and other relevant programming languages for bioinformatics pipeline development

Experience operating the Illumina Dragen package from command line or web-based UI

Advanced experience working with Linux environments and familiarity with HPC systems for large-scale NGS data analysis

Experience using bioinformatics tools and familiarity with genomics database

Good communication, interpersonal and presentation skills for team works

Ability to work as part of a team and with external collaborators

Ability to independently and reliably complete tasks and projects

Detail oriented and team-oriented leadership

Preferred

Proficiency in NextFlow is highly preferred and other workflow languages are a plus

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

401(k) retirement plan with company match.

Generous paid time off (PTO) and holidays.

Opportunity to lead a pioneering business unit within a rapidly growing company.

Company

Psomagen

Psomagen provides genomics services for research, clinical and direct-to-consumer applications.

Founded in 2012

Rockville, Maryland, USA

51-200 employees

https://psomagen.com/

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