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Opportunity: BIOINFORMATICS Engineer (#INFO872) @ J. Craig Venter Institute--Rockville, MD (US)
Submitted by Julia Lang; posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Bioinformatics Engineer is responsible for operating, supporting, maintaining, developing, integrating, and deploying bioinformatics tools and software supporting the scientific mission of the JCVI. Applicants should have substantial knowledge with genome-scale bioinformatics, including assembly, comparative genomics, analysis of protein families, multiple sequence alignment, and phylogenetic analyses. Bioinformatics Engineers contribute to all phases of the software engineering lifecycle to maintain JCVI's scientific leadership through the cost-effective application of bioinformatics and software engineering tools and techniques to solve JCVI's bioinformatics challenges.
REQUIREMENTS
- BS, MS or PhD in Biology or Computer Science/Software Engineering (and a familiarity with the other discipline) is required.
- Specific technical skills and experience pre-requisites will be established for each Bioinformatics Engineer position, and may include some combination of the following:
- * Bioinformatics tools and techniques
- * Scripting languages (Perl, Python, shell) and associated tools
- * Web technologies (HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript) and Graphics tools (Photoshop, Image Ready, Fireworks or similar)
- * Relational Database (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, and related tools including SQL and PL/SQL) design, data warehousing
- * Data Modeling (UML, ER, Ontology-based) and Agile development practices
- * Operating Systems: UNIX and UNIX variants, Windows, Macintosh
- * High throughput computing using Sun Grid Engine, CLOUD
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate across a multi-disciplinary team, and work independently
HOW TO APPLY
JCVI offers an excellent working environment and a competitive benefits package. For more information and to apply to this position, please visit our website at http://www.jcvi.org.
POLICY
Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.
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