BACKGROUND

Excellent opportunity to work with a world-class medical institute and develop tools for cutting edge research in the life sciences. The candidate will be primarily responsible for developing and managing the website and databases and supporting high throughput screening projects for a Functional Genomics facility at the NYU School of Medicine (http://rnainy.med.nyu.edu).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Duties include monitoring project status, identifying and resolving problems which may impact the project results; maintaining research software and hardware; working with departmental leadership on developing and implementing data management policies; consulting with departmental leadership regarding scientific application alternatives, security, software usage, capacity planning, training, data recovery and backup procedures. Individual should be able to seamlessly interface biology with computational skills and develop new tools and methods.

REQUIREMENTS

Individual should possess BS/MS in computer science, computational biology, bioinformatics or related area and at least 2 years of professional programming experience. This position requires a broad array of technical skills such as the knowledge of databases and search engines, statistical analysis tools and environments, visualization tools, and the ability to quickly create research-grade programs and scripts. Experience developing bioinformatics applications using programming languages like Java, Python and Perl; knowledge of SQL and relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer is required. Ability to administer and manage various operating systems like MacOSX, Windows and Linux is required.

PREFERENCES

Experience using Apache, HTML, CSS, CGI, BioPerl, BioPython, NCBI tools like BLAST would be preferred.

LOCALE

NYC

COMPENSATION

Based on experience

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your resume with a list of 3 references to nyurnaicore[at]gmail.com. Please no phone calls about this position.

DEADLINE

Until position is filled.