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  • [Photo] CII • August 31, 2018

    BACKGROUND

    The Center for Infection and Immunity (cii.columbia.edu) in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University – one of the world's most advanced academic centers for research in infectious disease surveillance, diagnosis and discovery in acute and chronic illnesses – has an opening for an experienced Sr. Programmer Analyst on the bioinformatics team to develop pipelines to analyze large-scale protein microarrays for immune response studies and investigate next generation sequencing (NGS) datasets for pathogen discovery. The successful applicant will join a dynamic, state of the art research laboratory at Columbia University and a global network of researchers who work on projects related to infectious disease surveillance and discovery in humans and wildlife, host response to infections, microbiome research and large-scale studies on chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and neurodevelopment disorders.

    The candidate is expected to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
    • Experience in bioinformatics, statistics, microarray and/or NGS data analysis.
    • Proficiency with writing high-quality code for pipelines to analyze very large datasets.
    • Advanced working knowledge of NGS experimental design, data quality control, mapping and alignment software, normalization and clustering methods.
    • Basic knowledge of genetics and molecular biology with practical knowledge of genomic databases from major bioinformatics resources such as NCBI and EMBL.
    • Proficiency in Unix environments with high performance clusters.
    • Familiarity with multi-threading tools, resource management and optimization for parallel processing of very large datasets.
    • Advanced working knowledge of scripting languages Python, R, Shell and/or Perl (proficiency is desirable) in an academic or industrial environment.
    • Individual should be highly self-motivated.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Bioinformatics support for protein array analysis – 50%
    • Bioinformatics support for projects related to microbial detection and discovery – 25%
    • Database management – 10%
    • Server hardware management – 5%
    • Contribute to publications and research grants – 5%
    • . Perform other related duties as assigned – 5%

    REQUIREMENTS

    Requires a Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics or computer science and at least four years of experience in bioinformatics.

    PREFERENCES

    Master's degree with at least 2 years of related experience. 3 years of experience in bioinformatics, statistics, microarray and/or NGS data analysis. 2 plus years of experience with scripting languages Python, R, Shell and/or Perl. An applied mathematics/statistics/biostatistics background. Knowledge of statistical and machine learning techniques is a plus.

    LOCALE

    New York, NY

    COMPENSATION

    Commensurate with experience.

    Benefits Highlights for Officers 2018 – http://hr.columbia.edu/benefits/bib

    HOW TO APPLY

    Please visit https://jobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=171540

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