• Bioinformatic Scientist - Lab-Molecular Pathology

    Dartmouth Health (Lebanon, NH)


    Overview

     

    The Department of Molecular Pathology at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is seeking aBioinformatics Scientistto join our team. This individual will be expected to evaluate tools and participate in validation of clinical pipelines in accordance with federal and state regulatory requirements. Familiarity with CLIA/CAP guidelines is preferred. The candidate will play a major role in translational research and pipeline development for our whole genome, transcriptome, and epigenome pathways.

     

    Supporting a state-of-the-art platform for both internal and external end-users, this position will be highly collaborative. We are seeking candidates with excellent communication skills and the flexibility to work outside of standard hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm, as needed. The successful candidate will have a dive-in and help attitude with an all-hands-on-deck approach to ensure success.

     

    This is a full-time, 40-hour/week position.

    Responsibilities

    * A working knowledge of scalable Pythonic pipelines with utilization of workflow languages such as WDL, CWL, NextFlow and Toil

    * This individual will be the ‘honest broker’ for security administration of our on-site HPC cluster.

    * An understanding of cloud infrastructure such as AWS and GCP is preferred to allow monitoring of error logs in the Dartmouth Cloud.

    * This position requires a deep understanding of the human genome reference databases such as Ensembl, NCBI databases, UCSC databases amongst others.

    * A basic understanding of machine learning and NLP would be advantageous and opportunities will be provided to develop these skills

    * An understanding of job scheduling in high-performance compute environments is necessary

    * Collaborate on new and ongoing clinical research studies

    * Participates in the teaching of residents, medical students, and other trainees. Participates in the supervision of genetic counseling students. assists with data entry and maintenance of the department database.

    * Performs other duties as required or assigned.

    Qualifications

    * PhD in Bioinformatics preferred or MS with at least 5-7 years of experience

    * Excellent communication skills required.

    * Area of Interest:Professional/Management

    * Pay Range:$94,785.60/Yr. - $151,652.80/Yr. (Based on 40 hours per week, otherwise pro rata)

    * FTE/Hours per pay period:1.00 - 1.00 - 40 hrs/week

    * Shift:Day

    * Job ID:33386

     

    Dartmouth Health offers a total compensation package that includes a comprehensive selection of benefits. Our Core Benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, paid time off, and retirement plans. Click here for information on these benefits and more:Benefits | DHMC and Clinics Careers

     

    Dartmouth Health is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

     

    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. We do not exclude or treat people differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.