Bioinformatics Scientist
Overview
Join the GATK team and help architect our foundational, open-source Map/Reduce toolkit for next-generation DNA sequencing already used tens of millions of times each year. Help us build and apply pioneering scientific tools for the analysis of petabytes of sequencing data to understand and cure diseases like Autism, Schizophrenia, Diabetes, HIV, Cancer, among many others in a field growing far faster than even Moore's law Do this all at the the Broad Institute, a new kind of deeply-collaborative research institution that is transforming medicine and human health by building software to organize, process, and visualize scientific data on an unprecedented scale.
Requirements
As a Bioinformatics Scientist, you will spend a large part of your time designing scientific experiments to answer questions in next generation sequencing data processing and analysis using tools that both under development or in active use by our user base, in collaboration with other team members. Preparing documentation to support and advocate the use of our tools and communicating with our users through our online forum and wiki pages. The remainder of your time will be spent managing the whole exome sequencing pipeline and addressing the analytical needs of the projects that use it.
Characteristic duties
- Designing experiments for current and future tools
- Writing reports in the form of scientific papers, blog posts or wiki tutorials describing your experiments
- Write moderately complex scripting pipelines to use several different tools in your analysis.
- Knowledge of statistical techniques and models required to analyze test data
- Take responsibility for monitoring product development and usage at all levels with an eye toward improving product quality
- Be the leading voice of the group in the user community advocating the use of our products.
