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ID #41163942
State Georgia
City Atlanta
Job type Contract
Salary USD Market Market
Source Mastech Digital
Showed 2022-05-19
Date 2022-05-18
Deadline 2022-07-17
Category Et cetera
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Life Scientist II

Georgia, Atlanta, 30301 Atlanta USA

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Mastech Digital provides digital and mainstream technology staff as well as Digital Transformation Services for all American Corporations. We are currently seeking a

Life Scientist II for our client in the

Information Technology Services domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth. This is a

Contract position and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 6+ Months Contract

Location: Atlanta, GA

Role: Life Scientist II

Primary Skills: Project Management

Role Description: The

Life Scientist II must have at least 3+ years of experience. For this role, you must have experience with scientific workflow management systems such as Nextflow and Snakemake strongly preferred, telework allowed. Same as level I position, but you should have some lead experience and more research experience. You must have demonstrated experience in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis including development and application of quality control, assembly, functional annotation, sequence alignment, variant detection, and phylogenetic analyses of viral, bacterial, fungal and protist genomes, transcriptomes and metagenomes. Position open to telecommuters, preferred location - Atlanta, GA.

Responsibilities: - Collaborate and provide bioinformatics support to researchers in the identification and implementation of new techniques and technologies for advanced analysis of complex molecular biology data. - Adapt bioinformatics algorithms and workflows in high-performance computing environments, including cloud and hybrid-cloud execution environments. - Competency writing customs scripts and software to perform bioinformatics analysis using Python, Perl, R and/or Java. - Perform bioinformatics analysis using open-source bioinformatics tools as well as licensed proprietary software such as CLC Genomics Workbench and Geneious. - Support modeling and simulation of evolutionary and population biological process using Bayesian inference and/or genetic algorithms. - Use statistical analysis tools, interpret and communicate results. - Use tools for visualizing complex biological datasets and able to interpret and communicate results as well as uncertainty to a diverse group of customers. - Assist in development and maintenance of highly curated genomic sequence databases, signature databases for virulence and AMR markers, strain type and pathogen type markers. - Provide guidance and support in scaled data analysis and management of next generation metagenomic sequencing data. - Assist with developing standard operating procedures for bioinformatics analyses. - Support and maintain relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) as well as NoSQL databases (MongoDB). - Supports researchers in creating and submitting publication and poster presentations. - Communicate progress orally and in writing with our scientific community stakeholders - Assist with preparation of reports, presentations and papers for publication in scientific journals, conferences and meetings - Provide leadership and mentorship to the bioinformatics and data science team as well as our scientific community and interns.

Minimum Qualifications: - A PhD or Master's degree in bioinformatics, genomics, molecular biology, genetics or related field. - 3+ years of bioinformatics experience - Experience with processing of high-throughput data and possessing strong data management and analysis skills. - Experience working in Linux environments and broad experience with open source bioinformatics tools - Proficient coding/scripting in Python, R, Perl - Experience working in a high-performance computing and/or cloud computing environment - Strong communication skills - Ability to obtain NACI clearance

Preferred Qualifications: - Strongly preferred experience in operating and developing components for workflow management systems such as Nextflow, Snakemake, and/or Workflow Description Language (WDL). - Experience in designing and conducting training workshops to the bioinformatics community on latest bioinformatics methods and concepts. - Experience with Tableau, Cloudera (Hadoop), JavaScript - Experience with machine learning approaches - Experience in one or more of the following phylogenetic analysis and visualization tools is highly desirable: BEAST, FastTree, RaxML, TreeTime, NextStrain, Microreact

Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent

Experience: Minimum 3+ years of experience

Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expenses

Travel: No

Local Preferred: Yes

Note: Must be able to work on a W2 basis

Recruiter Name: Suyash Singh

Recruiter Phone: 804-597-0420

Equal Employment Opportunity

Minimum Education Required: Bachelor

Years of Experience Required: At Least 3 Years

Expected Travel Time: None

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