Mount Sinai Morningside · 4 months ago
Bioinformatician II - Psychiatry
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$66K/yr - $100K/yr
2+ years expMount Sinai Morningside is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Bioinformatician II to join a multidisciplinary team at the Center for Disease Neurogenomics. The role involves supporting the analysis, infrastructure, and data stewardship of large-scale functional genomics datasets, including managing omics data and maintaining computational infrastructure.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Assist in the preprocessing, demultiplexing, and quality control of single-cell and bulk sequencing data across multiple assays (RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, multiome)
Implement and maintain metadata infrastructure for tracking donor/sample provenance and cohort selection across projects using a relational database backend
Monitor and maintain local high-performance computing resources, including scripting of automated usage summaries, quota alerts, and issue tracking
Support data transfers, pipeline execution, and user coordination in hybrid cloud environments (e.g., CAVATICA, GCP)
Write and maintain robust, well-documented code (e.g., Snakemake, bash, R, Python) for processing and managing large-scale datasets
Respond to infrastructure incidents (e.g., disk quota overflows, data loss risks) and proactively implement safeguards
Contribute to documentation and training materials to enable team-wide system usage
Other related duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
M.S. in Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, Computational Biology, or Genomics. Alternately, M.S. in a discipline requiring strong computational and analytical skills supplemented with some biology exposure. Ph.D in a related field preferred. Those with a Bachelors degree and additional post-graduate experience are considered
2+ years post-graduate experience in a research environment, including the manipulation of large biological datasets.; with ≥3 years of experience preferred
Advanced knowledge of genetics and/or statistical analysis software and online resources. Experience in programming environments such as MatLab, R statistical package, BioConductor, Perl and C++
Proficiency in Python and R; working knowledge of SQL and Linux shell scripting
Experience processing large-scale omics data (RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, or WGS)
Experience using or developing Nextflow or Snakemake-based pipelines is a strong plus
Strong problem-solving skills, ability to prioritize, and attention to reproducibility and data integrity
Preferred
Demonstrated experience maintaining or developing data tracking systems or LIMS solutions
Familiarity with HPC environments and workload managers (e.g., LSF, SLURM)
Experience with cloud-based genomics analysis platforms such as CAVATICA, Verily Workbench, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or comparable environments
Experience with data privacy standards and compliance in biomedical datasets
Company
Mount Sinai Morningside
At Mount Sinai Morningside, we offer exceptional clinical care and research within the comfort of a neighborhood hospital known for compassion and sensitivity.
1001-5000 employees
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Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Faye Reiff-Pasarew
Deputy CMO, Associate Chief of Hospital Medicine, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Lucy Xenophon, MD, MPH
Chief Transformation Officer
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