Bioinformatic Scientist Lab-Molecular Pathology

Location

Lebanon, NH | United States

Job description

This is a hybrid position requiring work on-site at our Lebanon, NH campus.

The Department of Molecular Pathology at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is seeking a Bionformatics Scientist to 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 will be a very collaborative position, and we are seeking candidates with excellent communication skills and flexibility in their schedule outside of Monday - Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm, when needed. The successful candidate will have a dive-in and help attitude with an all-hands on deck approach to ensure success. 

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1. A working knowledge of scalable Pythonic pipelines with utilization of workflow languages such as WDL, CWL, NextFlow and Toil
2. This individual will be the ‘honest broker’ for security administration of our on-site HPC cluster.
3. An understanding of cloud infrastructure such as AWS and GCP is preferred to allow monitoring of error logs in the Dartmouth Cloud.
4. This position requires a deep understanding of the human genome reference databases such as Ensembl, NCBI databases, UCSC databases amongst others.
5. A basic understanding of machine learning and NLP would be advantageous and opportunities will be provided to develop these skills
6. An understanding of job scheduling in high-performance compute environments is necessary
7. Collaborate on new and ongoing clinical research studies
8. 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.
9. Performs other duties as required or assigned.

• PhD in Bioinformatics preferred or MS with at least 5-7 years of experience
• Excellent communication skills required.

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