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Bioinformatics Analyst III
1 N Waukegan Road North Chicago, IL 60064 US
Posted: 02/15/2024
2024-02-15
2024-03-24
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Category: Data Sciences
Job Number: 599650
Is job remote?: Yes
Country: United States
Job Description
Pay is commiserate with experience and ranges between $50-58/hr
1) Job Title: Bioinformatics Analyst
2) Length of the assignment: 12 mo
3) What hours and days will this person be working: M-F, 9-5 (flexible)
4) Does this position offer the ability to work remotely on a regular basis or is it an on-site role? Remote
5) What are the top 5 skills/requirements this person is required have?
a. Required Skill 1: NGS analysis (RNAseq, WES, etc.)
b. Required Skill 2: python and R
c. Required Skill 3: oncology background, especially in cancer biology, tumor dependencies, signaling pathways
d. Required Skill 4: data visualization, technical problem solving
e. Required Skill 5: good communication skills
6) What years of experience, education, and/or certification is required?
a. PhD. Degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics, mathematics, computer science, genomics, cancer biology, immunology, or a related field.
b. Master’s degree with typically 3-5 years of experience.
c. Bachelor’s degree with typically 6-8 years of experience.
7) What is a nice to have (but not required) regarding skills, requirements, experience, education, or certification?
a. experience with HPC clusters, cloud compute, docker containers/apptainers or similar
b. Version control, github, shell
c. Variant calling and somatic copy number estimation from DNA
d. CRISPR screens analysis, single cell platforms, proteomics, metabolomics, microarray, etc.
e. Predictive modeling, machine learning, statistics
8) What is the environment that this person will be working in (i.e. group setting vs individual role)? Both
9) Is any testing required for this role? No.
10) Other notable details about the environment from the hiring manager about this role.
Half of role is involved in support for oncology discovery teams to perform varied analyses pertaining to target ID and validation, MOA hypothesis generation, biomarker discovery, etc. Other half is pertaining to innovative research and methodology development for DNA NGS.
11) What positions/background experience do you feel are successful in this role?
Prior research work in oncology bioinformatics analysis, either in academia or industry
12) What will the interview process be?
• Phone screen with hiring managers (two of us)
• Short presentation (30-40 mins) followed by panel discussion/interview
?
Commonly Asked Screening Questions:
• Project scope- what will this person(s) be supporting?
o Drug target identification/evaluation for oncology discovery programs; DNA NGS research and method development
• Project Goal & Project Budget?
o Goal 1: Drug target identification/evaluation for oncology discovery programs
? QC, process, and interpret omics data sets for various discovery programs
? Meet w/ program teams throughout experimental stages, from design to results
o Goal 2: DNA NGS research and method development
? Work with bioinformatic methods development team to research and develop new methods for variant calling and somatic copy number estimation from DNA
• Day to Day Expectations?
• Education Background?
o A Ph.D. OR a Masters degree with at least three years of relevant experience OR a bachelor’s degree with six years of experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, engineering, or cancer biology is required
• Therapeutic area discipline?
o Oncology
o Synthetic lethality, tumor intrinsic pathways, cancer genetics, etc.
• Cross functional teams to be interacting with?
o Discovery, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Bioinformatic Engineering, IR
• Coding requirements
o R and/or python required
o Docker/Apptainer experience a plus
o Familiarity with AI/ML techniques a plus
• Datasets experience?
o In vivo/in vitro cellular biology datasets; cancer patient populations
o CRISPR screens analysis preferred
o Extraction, interpretation, analysis & communication? Yes
o Genomics data? Yes
o Experience processing omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, genotypes, etc) or other high-dimensional data? Yes
• Monthly & Yearly Deliverables
• 12 months
• Scalability of the work/Flexibility of the contract
1) Job Title: Bioinformatics Analyst
2) Length of the assignment: 12 mo
3) What hours and days will this person be working: M-F, 9-5 (flexible)
4) Does this position offer the ability to work remotely on a regular basis or is it an on-site role? Remote
5) What are the top 5 skills/requirements this person is required have?
a. Required Skill 1: NGS analysis (RNAseq, WES, etc.)
b. Required Skill 2: python and R
c. Required Skill 3: oncology background, especially in cancer biology, tumor dependencies, signaling pathways
d. Required Skill 4: data visualization, technical problem solving
e. Required Skill 5: good communication skills
6) What years of experience, education, and/or certification is required?
a. PhD. Degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics, mathematics, computer science, genomics, cancer biology, immunology, or a related field.
b. Master’s degree with typically 3-5 years of experience.
c. Bachelor’s degree with typically 6-8 years of experience.
7) What is a nice to have (but not required) regarding skills, requirements, experience, education, or certification?
a. experience with HPC clusters, cloud compute, docker containers/apptainers or similar
b. Version control, github, shell
c. Variant calling and somatic copy number estimation from DNA
d. CRISPR screens analysis, single cell platforms, proteomics, metabolomics, microarray, etc.
e. Predictive modeling, machine learning, statistics
8) What is the environment that this person will be working in (i.e. group setting vs individual role)? Both
9) Is any testing required for this role? No.
10) Other notable details about the environment from the hiring manager about this role.
Half of role is involved in support for oncology discovery teams to perform varied analyses pertaining to target ID and validation, MOA hypothesis generation, biomarker discovery, etc. Other half is pertaining to innovative research and methodology development for DNA NGS.
11) What positions/background experience do you feel are successful in this role?
Prior research work in oncology bioinformatics analysis, either in academia or industry
12) What will the interview process be?
• Phone screen with hiring managers (two of us)
• Short presentation (30-40 mins) followed by panel discussion/interview
?
Commonly Asked Screening Questions:
• Project scope- what will this person(s) be supporting?
o Drug target identification/evaluation for oncology discovery programs; DNA NGS research and method development
• Project Goal & Project Budget?
o Goal 1: Drug target identification/evaluation for oncology discovery programs
? QC, process, and interpret omics data sets for various discovery programs
? Meet w/ program teams throughout experimental stages, from design to results
o Goal 2: DNA NGS research and method development
? Work with bioinformatic methods development team to research and develop new methods for variant calling and somatic copy number estimation from DNA
• Day to Day Expectations?
• Education Background?
o A Ph.D. OR a Masters degree with at least three years of relevant experience OR a bachelor’s degree with six years of experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, engineering, or cancer biology is required
• Therapeutic area discipline?
o Oncology
o Synthetic lethality, tumor intrinsic pathways, cancer genetics, etc.
• Cross functional teams to be interacting with?
o Discovery, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Bioinformatic Engineering, IR
• Coding requirements
o R and/or python required
o Docker/Apptainer experience a plus
o Familiarity with AI/ML techniques a plus
• Datasets experience?
o In vivo/in vitro cellular biology datasets; cancer patient populations
o CRISPR screens analysis preferred
o Extraction, interpretation, analysis & communication? Yes
o Genomics data? Yes
o Experience processing omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, genotypes, etc) or other high-dimensional data? Yes
• Monthly & Yearly Deliverables
• 12 months
• Scalability of the work/Flexibility of the contract
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