Bioinformatics Scientist / Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

This is an exciting opportunity to join DNAnexus’ growing team. We are looking for a bioinformatician familiar with genomics and translational data analysis who enjoys working hands-on with other scientists, software engineers, and clients to solve informatics challenges to join our team. As a member of the Bioinformatics team in the DNAnexus xVantage organization, you will work with industry leaders across all aspects of genomics, gaining exposure to leading genomic science and application development. You will advise customers on best-practices, develop and integrate bioinformatics pipelines, data standards, methods, and datasets into the DNAnexus platform. You'll also be the scientific and technical liaison between DNAnexus and some of the highest-profile clients to help them fully leverage DNAnexus products and services to achieve their scientific objectives.

Responsibilities

• Research, integrate, test and validate new bioinformatics methods on the DNAnexus Platform.
• Ability to develop reusable, well-tested software in WDL, Python, R or shell scripting.
• Design data standards and integrate normalized genomics datasets on the DNAnexus platform.
• Introduce DNAnexus to prospective customers and demonstrate how we can help them migrate to the cloud.
• Teach new customers how to use the DNAnexus platform and SDK to develop their own analytic tools
• Advance our relationships with scientific and technical users, achieve customer satisfaction objectives, and grow our active user base.
• Synthesize learnings from customers to help direct our technology development roadmap.
• Develop scientific use cases for customer visits, presentations, and marketing material.

Requirements

• Masters, or equivalent experience, in computer science, bioinformatics, computational biology, biology, genetics, or related discipline with a computational emphasis. A Ph.D. is desirable.
• Strong programming ability in relevant framework and languages such as WDL, CWL, Nextflow, Python, R or shell scripting.
• Hands-on experience with genomics sequence analysis, for example, using popular tools such as BWA and GATK.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills. This also requires the ability to effectively communicate complex topics with a diverse audience.
• Enjoys interacting closely with DNAnexus customers.

Desirable skills

Below are the skills that are highly desirable, but are not required. DNAnexus will provide the necessary training to qualified candidates:

• Understanding of cloud computing and high-performance computing.
• Familiarity with software development and project management processes and tools (agile, JIRA, wiki, etc.).
• Experience with big data analytics technologies including Spark, Hive, and Hadoop, and an understanding of relational database concepts.
• Experience implementing database structures that support relationships established using ontologies/graph database structures.

Based in San Francisco and Mountain View, California, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and is searching for the best talent to join our team. We recently completed a $100 million financing round to advance our growth globally to further serve leading healthcare and life science organizations. Key investors include Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures, TPG Biotech, and Foresite Capital.

If you are interested in joining our team, please apply today! 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.