Staff Scientist - Bioinformatics Engineer (Remote)
City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Job posting number: #7307294 (Ref:10030292)
Posted: April 30, 2025
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the forefront of groundbreaking research at City Hope where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. Our dedicated and compassionate faculty and staff are driven by a common mission: Contribute to innovative approaches in predicting, preventing, and curing diseases, shaping the future of medicine through cutting-edge research.
A Staff Scientist position is available for a highly talented bioinformatics engineer to join our computational microbiome team. The successful candidate will contribute to the development and implementation of bioinformatics pipelines. This is an exceptional opportunity for a bioinformatics engineer who is willing to apply his/her expertise to the intersection of human microbiome, immuno-therapy and cancer research. Individuals appointed as staff scientists will receive a one-year fixed-term contract.
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Develop and implement bioinformatics pipelines,
- Integrate pipelines into snakemake workflow.
- Keep pipelines current.
- Test pipelines in large scale.
- Provide summary report and documentation of pipelines and results.
Your qualifications should include:
- PhD or MSc. in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related field.
- Knowledgeable of Bioinformatics techniques, next generation sequencing data and pipelines.
- Ability to implement, develop and modify Bioinformatics pipelines.
- Fluent in scientific scripting languages such as R or Python and bash environment.
- Fluent in snakemake.
- Strong communication skills.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with microbiome bioinformatics pipelines.
- Experience with whole genome sequencing (WGS), whole exome sequencing (WES), RNA sequencing (RNAseq) analysis, and calling of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and insertions/deletions (indels).
- Understanding concepts of molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, immunology.
- Understanding statistical analysis techniques for microbiome (alpha-diversity, beta-diversity, dimensionality reduction, clustering, regression models).
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $38.67 - $127.69 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
