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Senior Data Scientist – Bioinformatics

Senior Data Scientist – Bioinformatics

CompanyRecursion Pharmaceuticals
LocationSalt Lake City, UT, USA, London, UK, Toronto, ON, Canada
Salary$181000 – $206000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience building bioinformatics workflows for next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis, preferably in an industry setting.
  • Experience analyzing NGS data to develop, optimize, or support an NGS assay
  • Experience building and maintaining scaled production analysis workflows, bioinformatics workflows a plus
  • Experience with professional software development using best practices including version control (e.g. git) and code review
  • High fluency in Python and data science libraries
  • Experience creating effective visualizations in Python
  • RNAseq bioinformatics experience a plus

Responsibilities

  • Develop methods, metrics, benchmarks, models and workflows to help drive drug discovery in a standardized way
  • Build scalable production bioinformatics workflows to support our NGS assays
  • Create and analyze enormous sets of connected data for a variety of programs to learn how best to advance drug discovery in an industrialized way
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to mature your models and analyses and put them into productionized flows
  • Deliver quickly and iteratively, both supporting in-flight programs and building improvements for the long-term
  • Learn to leverage new code packages and data science techniques as needed

Preferred Qualifications

  • RNAseq bioinformatics experience a plus