Senior Data Scientist - Genetics

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Posted Job Title

Senior Data Scientist - Genetics

Job Profile Title

Job Description Summary

The UPenn department of genetics is seeking a Senior Data Scientist

for clinical genomic pipeline design and implementation.

Job Description

The successful candidate will be working with a broad team of

quantitative analysts, including Statisticians, Data Scientists,

Clinical and Basic trainees, and other bioinformaticians. Their

role will involve developing and implementing new quantitative

strategies to improve our understanding and ability to diagnose

genetic disorders through a large-scale genomic clinically grade

testing. Senior Data Scientists are passionate about applying their

knowledge of biology and of methods for molecular, cellular or

radiologic data-analysis to uncover general principles of genetic

disorders and use these to create clinically useful biomarkers.

They will develop, extend and apply computational pipelines for

data-analysis to patient cohorts ranging from tens of individuals

to hundreds of thousands. These will be executed at scale via

distributed software solutions on both local HPC and cloud-based

assets. Our datasets comprise petabytes, and are growing rapidly,

linked to key clinical endpoints. This requires a strong background

in biology to help ensure the right questions are asked, but linked

to strong technical and personal communication skills, to help

ensure insights are broadly adopted and appropriate analyses are

performed. You may work with molecular (WGS, panel-sequencing,

RNA-Seq, proteomic) or imaging (digital pathology, radiomic) data,

and practical experience in one of these two areas is essential.

Beyond your strong inter-personal skills and computer science

background, you will have experience with implementation skills at

least one of R, Perl or Python. You will be comfortable in

UNIX/Linux environments and producing well-documented code.

Multi-year experience (>10years) with cloud-computing or HPC is

essential.

Master of Science and 1 to 2 years of experience, or an equivalent

combination of education and experience required. Ph.D.

preferred.

This position is contingent upon grant funding.

Job Location - City, State

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Department / School

Perelman School of Medicine

Pay Range

$100,000.00 - $160,000.00 Annual Rate

Salary offers are made based on the candidate's qualifications,

experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the

requirements of the position, and in alignment with salary ranges

based on external market data for the job's level. Internal

organization and peer data at Penn are also considered.

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The University of Pennsylvania is an equal opportunity employer.

Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race,

color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, creed, national origin

(including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics), citizenship

status, age, disability, veteran status or any class protected

under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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