Bioinformatician
Watershed's team is comprised of biologists, bioinformaticians, web developers, and software engineers. As a bioinformatician:
Responsibilities
- Engage directly with customers (both biologists and bioinformaticians) on their deployment of the Watershed platform, ensure the technical success of client engagements, and communicate customer feedback and feature requests to the broader team
- Test, troubleshoot, and enhance customer workflows with and on behalf of customers, and lead design and development reviews of these workflows
- Propose and implement more sophisticated, bespoke bioinformatics analyses upon customer request
- Collaborate with our full-stack engineering team from a bioinformatics perspective on building out efficient, performant, -omics workflows, including but not limited to: whole genome/exome sequencing, RNAseq (single-cell and bulk), ChIP-Seq, ATAC-seq (single-cell and bulk), proteomics, and metabolomics
Qualifications
- Strong biology background and excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Expertise in bioinformatics workflows (2+ of the above preferred)
- Knowledge of bioinformatics and data science best practices (Quality-control, exploratory data analyses, existing industry standard open-source tools)
- Experience in Python, R, and/or MATLAB
Watershed is an equal-opportunity employer and believes diversity of all types is integral to company success. We do not discriminate on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.