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  • [Photo] Yushen Chang • December 24, 2015

    BACKGROUND

    The Bioinformatics Core Services (BiCS) is a technology center under Research & Discovery operations. BiCS facilitates the coordination of bioinformatic efforts throughout Research, serves as an entry point for unmet bioinformatics needs and provides common infrastructures (hardware, software, best practices and training) for Bioinformaticians and non-Bioinformatic Scientists throughout R&D.

    We are looking for a Bioinformatics Applications Specialist. This person is responsible for the installation, support and maintenance of bioinformatics analysis tools serving R&D departments. Together with the Research IT department, the Bioinformatics Application Specialist monitors applications usage, coordinate with users data architecture best practices and communicates about new tools, changes and developments. The post holder evaluates, installs, and parameterizes commercial or open source software in a High Performance Computing (HPC) Linux cluster environment to support data analysis pipelines. This role requires communication skills, bioinformatics experience, familiarity with the Linux environment, and the ability to adjust software to its environment, as well as support analysis pipelines.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Create and support bioinformatics application pipelines
    • Perform computational validation experiments to assess software feasibility
    • Install, maintain, and upgrade bioinformatics software applications and middleware
    • Parameterize software applications for a specific use case
    • Able to construct "wrapper scripts" to aggregate code into an analysis workflow
    • Troubleshoot application issues
    • Partner with R-IT and business to devise training activities and user best practices guidelines to align with cross-department controlled vocabulary.
    • Contribute in the software development efforts, processes and procedures, and guidelines to ensure they meet business rules and government regulations

    REQUIREMENTS

    This position requires a minimum of a MS degree (PhD preferred), and 4+ years experience with Bioinformatics/NGS applications in an HPC environment. Additional minimum requirements include:
    • Experience with molecular biology techniques
    • Familiarity with public bioinformatics resources (NCBI, UCSC, Ensembl, UniProt)
    • Familiarity with sequence manipulation software (MacVector, DNAStar, VectorNTI, SnapGene)
    • Experience with large data sets and challenges associated with them

    PREFERENCES

    • Familiarity with programmatic access (via API, MySQL, etc.) to public bioinformatics resources (NCBI, UCSC, Ensembl, UniProt)
    • 3+ years experience with Linux application development tools (autoconf, make, gcc, g77, cmake, etc)
    • Familiar with various code repositories (git, subversion, CVS)
    • Experience with job schedulers/queue managers (SGE, PBS, LSF)
    • Scripting proficiency (Ruby, Shell, Perl, Python, Java, or similar)
    • Code debugging, profiling and optimization techniques

    TERMS

    Full time, regular position with employee benefits

    LOCALE

    Tarrytown, New York

    COMPENSATION

    Depending on experience

    HOW TO APPLY

    Please visit https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGWEbHost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerid=25570&siteid=5080&jobId=582468&codes=futurestep

    DEADLINE

    Until we find someone right for the role!

    POLICY

    This is an opportunity to join our select team that is already leading the way in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry. Apply today and learn more about Regeneron's unwavering commitment to combining good science & good business.

    Regeneron is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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