Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
Staff Research Scientist
Business Overview
Rakuten is the one of the largest internet service companies globally and provides more than 70 services spanning eCommerce,finance, telecommunications, sports and much more to approximately 1.4 billion customers. Rakuten Institute of Technology (RIT) is the dedicated Research and Innovation department of Rakuten, with teams in Tokyo, Paris, Boston, San Mateo, Singapore, and Bengaluru.
Position Details.
- Develop, maintain, and optimize bioinformatics analysis pipelines and databases.
- Design, develop and implement novel bioinformatics algorithms.
- Develop novel AI methods for bioinformatics analysis.
- Analyze and interpret biological data from sources such as next generation sequencing.
- Perform genomics analysis including gene mutation and gene expression analysis.
- Write comprehensive reports for internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Preferred PhD in Bioinformatics or related areas such as Biomedical, Electrical, Computer Science and engineering with significant industry experience in bioinformatics or related areas
- Knowledge of bioinformatics tools such as Bioconductor R libraries and tools
- Knowledge of public data repositories (TCGA, CBioPortal etc)
- Proficient in R, R-studio and python programming
- Preferred experience in R-shiny dashboard programming
- Preferred experience in JavaScript
- Preferred experience in ML/DL (pytorch or TensorFlow)
- Have excellent communication skills.
- Have ability to work independently.
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