Bioinformatics Data Scientist - Bestica Inc.

JOB TITLE: Bioinformatics Data Scientist

LOCATION: Dayton, OH 45433

EMPLOYEMENT TYPE

Full-Time

ONLY ELIGIBLE FOR US CITIZENS

Description of Services: The Employee shall support 711 Human Performance Wing (711 HPW), Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air and Space Biosciences Division, Biotechnology Branch, Bio-analytics (RHBBA) research or other professional and scientific work involving the application of multi- disciplinary or unique biological science theories and techniques related to the study of living organisms and/or objects and how they relate to their environment. The employee shall perform analysis and use systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approaches to manage projects related to the development, deployment and optimization of bioinformatics software tools and pipelines for analyses of Warfighter performance-related biological markers and interventions in both Windows and Linux environments.

Benefits and Details:

1. Medical Vision
2. Life Dental
3. 10 days PTO
4. 11 Paid Federal Holidays
5. 401k
6. Amazing Work Environment

Work Schedule: Work schedule is normally Monday-Friday 07:30-16:30

Mandatory Qualifications

• The employee shall possess a Bachelor of Science degree in a biological science field, medical field, or computer science field, with at least five (5) years’ demonstrated work experience in one of these fields.
• The employee shall possess excellent organizational, management, and communications skills including scientific writing and documentation abilities.
• The employee shall possess sufficient demonstrated content and associated software experience for developing various types of data pipelines. Demonstrated experience shall detail specific software, methods, and data types.
• The employee shall possess at least five (5) years’ demonstrated experience with bash or Python scripting languages and coding in a high-performance computing environment.
• The employee shall possess at least five (5) years’ demonstrated experience of iterative code design.
• The employee shall possess at least five (5) years’ demonstrated experience literature search/review skills necessary to determine optimal software and pipeline design.
• The employee shall possess at least four (4) years’ demonstrated experience of meticulous documentation for all code and methods.
• The employee shall possess at least five (5) years’ demonstrated experience with content and software specific to Multiomics data pipelines including Whole Genome Sequencing (Next Generation Sequencing), Transcriptomics, Metabolomics, and Proteomics.
• The employee shall have a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in place with their company based on the potential access to confidential, proprietary, and/or sensitive information. NDA shall be provided to the Government Program Manager by start of performance.

Highly Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with military and medical terminology, military medical research.
• Minimum 5 years GLP/ISO experience in industry research.
• Experience in various cell biology and molecular biology techniques.
• Illumina DRAGEN workflow implementation experience.
• Minimum 2 years R Shiny experience.
• Docker experience.
• Minimum 1 peer-reviewed publication that includes methodology developed by the employee.