BioInformatics Software Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Cynvenio Biosystems is a cutting edge biotechnology company focusing on the cancer medical-diagnostics space.  We are a dedicated group of  engineers, molecular biologists and chemists who have a passion for building products that help people.

 

 

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced bioinformatics software engineer to help us expand our existing single nucleotide variant analysis pipeline to provide
InDel, structural variant detection and processing, and other features.

Initial Responsibilities:

Work with scientists and engineers to design, write, and test algorithms that detect InDels and structural variants in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data.

In addition the successful candidate with have the following abilities:

Coding experience in Perl, Ruby, and Python
Shell-scripting experience 
Proficient in using Linux-based operating systems
Experience with MySQL databases 
Experience with Perl Modules such as DBI, Bioperl, etc...
Can implement CPAN modules to accomplish tasks
Ability to understand technical requirements and translate them into a functioning code
Ability to automate tasks using scripts
Ability to document code and create manuals for user interfaces
Build, modify, or develop functional components of existing code
Ability to test code based on user input and track changes
 

Qualifications

Knowledge of NGS techniques and related biochemistry;
Demonstrated experience with of conventional software tools for analysis of NGS data,   including file formats (.FASTA, .FASTQ, .BED, etc), aligners (bowtie2, BWA MEM, et al), and other analysis tools (eg, samtools);
 

Additional Information

Our compensation package is competitive and dependent on your qualifications and experience. If you’re an outstanding Candidate who would like to join a cutting edge team to change the world, we’d love to hear from you.

 

If you see yourself in this position, and you want to change the diagnostics world, we’d love to hear from you. 

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