20 Apr
Computational Biologist
California, Southsanfrancisco , 94080 Southsanfrancisco USA

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11793149 Computational Biologist IV

12 month contract

100% remote till end of 2nd quarter. Must be able to work onsite in So. SF when Covid is lifted.

Required
  • BIOINFORMATICS
  • DATA MANAGEMENT
  • DATA SCIENCE
  • STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Duties:
  • As a computational biologist in the Structural Biology department of the Research department, you will work with scientists and software engineers to develop and improve the next generation of computational structural analysis methods and tools.
  • You will lead the development of scientific databases and scalable data processing pipelines and APIs to enable programmatic and visual data analysis.
  • You will provide pragmatic computational expertise in collaboration with scientists and other engineers to facilitate deep exploration of multidimensional molecular data.
  • Your infrastructure and tools will enable our scientists, across a range of computational expertise, to explore molecular data to discover drug targets that ultimately deliver life saving therapies to our patients.
  • You should be passionate about sustainable programming practices, have a flexible and learning mindset, be able to work in a fluid and dynamic environment, be comfortable leading globally distributed development teams and have a strong desire to pursue creative solutions to challenging problems.

Skills: Experience in protein sequence and structural data analysis.· Familiarity with PyMol or other molecular visualization tools.· Experience supporting data science activities using FAIR data management and reproducible practices.· Adept at object-oriented programming and high-level languages used in data science such as Python.· Expertise in operating on large data, such as data stored in relational and non-relational databases and file systems.

Education:
  • M.S or PhD in bioinformatics or a related discipline is preferred, but candidates with a B.S. degree in biological or computational science with 5 years practical experience will be considered equivalently.
  • A background in computational chemistry or computational structural biology would be a significant advantage

Additional
  • OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
  • PYTHON
  • VISUALIZATION
  • BIOCHEMISTRY

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