BACKGROUND

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with an international team of software developers, curators, scientists, and clinicians to provide quality applications that realize scientific goals.
• Work with domain experts to plan and prototype new applications, features, and interfaces.
• Develop and maintain software for integrating biological data using ontologies.
• Maintain and extend extract, transformation, and load pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Python codebase for ontology-based data access.

• Perform requirements analysis and work with product owners on software specifications.
• Provide technical assistance and training to collaborators at other sites.
• Serve as a key contributor to troubleshoot and solve highly technical, complex problems and provide direction for the project.
• Assist in the writing of manuscripts and progress reports.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, bioinformatics, or related field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or Master's Degree and a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated software engineering skills.
• Experience in team-based software engineering, using collaborative software development methodologies.
• Experience with one or more forms of database management systems (e.g., relational, graph, document).
• Experience with the Python programming language.
• Experience with modern devops workflows and implementations.
• Experience with the maintenance and tuning of common software stacks.
• Experience with one or more data modeling frameworks (e.g., UML, JSON-Schema, LinkML)
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in a diverse team environment.

• Knowledge of ontology and knowledge engineering frameworks, APIs, languages, and techniques (e.g., OWLAPI, Jena, SPARQL).
• Experience with systems architecture, operations, deployment, and security.
• Expertise with graph or RDF databases.
• Understanding of and experience with open-source software and open science.
• Familiarity with biomedical terminology.

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, bioinformatics, or related field and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or Master's Degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience programming as part of a team on mid to large software applications.
• Demonstrated experience working with users to gather requirements, demonstrate new features, etc.
• Experience modeling and working with complex heterogeneous biomedical data.
• Demonstrated contributions to full stack applications for exploring, analyzing, or visualizing data.

TERMS

• This is a full time, 2 year, term appointment with the possibility of extension or conversion to Career
• This position will be hired at a level commensurate with the business needs and the skills, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate.
• This position may be subject to a background check. Any convictions will be evaluated to determine if they directly relate to the responsibilities and requirements of the position. Having a conviction history will not automatically disqualify an applicant from being considered for employment.

LOCALE

• This position will be remote initially, but limited to individuals residing in the United States tentatively until 2022 due to COVID-19. Once the Bay Area shelter-in-place restrictions are lifted, work will be primarily performed at: West Berkeley Biocenter (Potter St.) – Bldg. 977, 717 Potter St., Berkeley, CA. We are open to fully remote workers. The option for remote work will also be available after shelter in place restrictions are lifted.

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