Job Title: Computational Biologist
Location: Mississauga, ON L5N 5M8
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
The “Data & Analytics - Computational Science” is looking for interdisciplinary scientists with strong experience in computational biology to perform scientific data analyses in partnership with Research and Early Development from the Canada office in Mississauga, Ontario.
Required Skills
- Minimum of a PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Bioengineering or related sciences.
- Experience analyzing and integrating high dimensional genomics data types such as single cell RNA-Seq
- Expertise in languages such as R or Python for computational analyses.
- Proficiency in Unix/Linux
- Record of scientific publications.
- Good understanding of biological concepts and experimental methods commonly used in molecular biology and interest to learn more.
- Excellent verbal and written communication with computational and non-computational audiences.
- Responsible and reliable; goal and task oriented. Able to work independently to answer scientific questions using public and private data sets.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Strong background, experience, or degree in biomedical field is preferred (eg Neuroscience, Immunology, Genetics, etc.).
- Experience with version control and issue tracking systems (eg. git, JIRA).
- Experience working with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
- Machine Learning skills are a plus.
List of Duties
- Collaborate closely with partner scientists, understand their biological questions, and use public and internal databases to provide reliable scientific answers.
- Process and analyze high dimensional genomics data types using existing pipelines.
- Presenting data analysis results using open source and internally developed tools.