Sentieon - Computational Biologist/Computer Scientist for Bioinformatics Tool Development and Analysis project

Short about the company

Sentieon is an award winning bioinformatics company creating analytical software for genomics focusing on NGS secondary analysis of short and long reads. 

​Sentieon was incorporated in July 2014, and develops highly-optimized algorithms for bioinformatics applications, using the team’s expertise in algorithm, software, and system optimization.

Sentieon is a team of professionals experienced in image processing, telecom, computational lithography, large-scale data-mining, and bioinformatics. Using our accumulated expertise in modeling, optimization, machine learning, and high-performance computing, we strive to enable precision data for precision medicine.

 

Position/Project summary

We are looking for a bio-informatician that can help Sentieon’s application team with real life experiments using real or simulated data to benchmark the Sentieon bioinformatics tools.

 

Job responsibilities

  • Research best benchmarking methodologies to use for different a diverse array of genomics applications.

  • Define and execute experiments to benchmark bio-informatics tools.

  • Analyze results and summarize potential improvements and optimum tool settings.

The findings from this project will help determine future improvements to our software offering our tools and will help inform guide the priorities of the engineering team.

 

Required skills/ Qualifications

 

  • Graduate Student working in bio-informatics, physics, computer science, or a closely related field.

  • Knowledge of bioinformatics principles, pipelines and standard formats

  • Great Excellent ability to communicate highly technical information to a diverse team of coworkerscommunication skills to be able to share the results with the whole team

  • Proficiency in unix OS, command line interface and Unix shell scripting.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Hands on experience in with bio-informatics tools such as SAMsamtools, BWA-MEM, Sentieon DNAseq/GATK is recommended.

  • Experience with a bioinformatics workflow language such as WDL, Snakemake or Nextflow

  • Coding proficiency in Python is a plus

  • Knowledge of cloud environments is also desirable

Sentieon Inc is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.