Bioinformatician, PH Lab - $66.56/hr

Healthcare Staffing Professionals has an immediate need for an Bioinformatician - PH Lab. The Bioinformatician will perform specialized information systems analysis and will provide expertise in one or more areas of systems analysis. The Bioinformatician may act as a team leader, coordinator, lead a project team, or provide expertise in information systems analysis, including definition of user requirements, feasibility studies, design, program specifications, testing, and implementation. The Bioinformatician will also assist project managers in the development of project plans and system integration test plans for new systems or complex enhancements to existing systems. The Bioinformatician will monitor application systems functionality and participate in development of management procedures and quality standards.

The position will start immediately upon acceptance and employment clearance and is initially funded through 6/30/25 with potential renewal.

Pay Rate-

$66.56/hr working 40 hours a week

Benefits

Paid Holidays, Paid Sick Time, PTO

Healthcare

Employer Fully Funded Healthcare (Anthem Blue Cross), Dental and Vision, Life Insurance from Initial Start Date.

Shifts: Downey, CA

Skills/Experience

• One year experience and proficiency in the following: sequencing analysis, processing and managing raw data generated from NGS techniques; NGS data generated on Illumina sequencing instruments, including the Nanopore and MiSeq platforms; using open source genomic analysis tools; using open source tools for the annotation and interpretation of genomic variants; utilizing public databases; developing tools and pipelines for NGS data analysis; working with large-scale NGS data in high performance cluster computing environments; using at least one of the following scripting languages: bash, Python, or Perl; conducting statistical analyses using R/Bioconductor; Unix/Linux system administration experience; and biostatistics and bioinformatics
• Proficient knowledge of bioinformatics, basic statistics, microbial genetics, and molecular biology, and understanding of NGS workflow;
• Proficient ability to conduct the following: select and perform the most appropriate experimental design, analytical workflow, and analytic technique for different NGS data types; analyses that may include identifying SNPs, indels, phylogenetic analysis; read, interpret, and apply scientific literature and communicate with investigators on analysis outputs; and catalogue, regulate, and maintain integrity of data
  
  

Desirable qualifications:

• Ph.D. in genetics, microbiology, bioinformatics, computational biology, or a related field or equivalent education/experience