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BACKGROUND

For over 130 years, the people of Memorial Sloan Kettering have been relentless pioneers in our single-minded focus on the prevention and cure of cancer. We are known for intensely innovative research that never stops, as well as for thoughtful, compassionate, and responsive patient care that treats the individual first.

Today, Memorial Sloan Kettering is the nation's number one hospital in cancer care (U.S. News & World Report, 2014-15) because of our unified commitment to the people we serve. Find your life's calling at a place that's finding a better way.

Join a computational and systems biology group, collaborate with a creative team of scientists and engineers, facilitate basic research and potential innovation in cancer therapy. Design and build solutions to turn complex data into knowledge and to turn knowledge into clinical decision support. Seize the opportunity to work with cutting-edge scientific information and apply it to make a positive impact on science and health.

RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for an experienced, flexible software engineer to work in the area of biological information systems with particular emphasis on cancer genomics, perturbation biology, evolutionary dynamics and pathway informatics. Technical challenges include visualization and complexity management of big data, horizontal and vertical data integration, extending data systems to accommodate new types of information, extracting biologically meaningful functional events from numerical data, processing information from natural text and building web-based data analysis platforms.

REQUIREMENTS

Relevant skills:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field and 2+ years of software development experience
Strong interest in designing and developing complex, evolvable software systems
Strong interest in contributing to biological research with clinical applications
Ability and desire to work collaboratively in a creative team
Experience in modern software development technologies including distributed versioning systems, continuous integration, and project management
Experience in user interaction design and data visualization
Expert knowledge of Java, Javascript, jQuery, Backbone.js, D3
Knowledge of frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
Prior involvement or interest in bioinformatics or cancer genomics
Good verbal and written communication and documentation skills

LOCALE

NY, NY

COMPENSATION

Competitive

HOW TO APPLY

Please visit our careers page, http://www.mskcc.org/jobs and search for Job ID 2653 to apply online.

POLICY

MSK is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran status or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

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