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OfficeDo you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.
Location/Division Specific Information
The position is based in Ann Arbor, MI and is part of the extended Bioinformatics team within the Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing Division. The mission of this business unit is to develop NGS-based solutions to support applications in oncology and other medical fields.
Discover Impactful Work:
Join a team of hard-working engineers and scientists, passionate about bringing actionable insights to precision oncology. The successful candidate will work collaboratively in a matrix environment to develop data analysis strategies to address key questions about cancer for our internal and external customers. Applications include diagnostics, target and biomarker discovery, indication selection, and clinical development strategies.
A day in the Life:
Lead or support development of new sequencing products, designing experiments and interpreting results to ensure performance meets customer requirements.
Develop new algorithms and bioinformatics workflows, translating product requirements into code, testing performance, implementing improvements, and integrating into production. software.
Understand and follow product development process guidelines around design, development, and testing.
Provide support for on-market products by troubleshooting customer issues and implementing and testing workflow improvements.
Work cross-functionally with molecular biology scientists, software engineers, quality, regulatory, and product management.
Keys to Success:
Education
PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics, computer science, or biological sciences, with 2+ years of experience (or MS with 5+ years).
Experience
Experience analyzing oncology data is a plus.
Proven knowledge of next-generation sequencing analysis, with a good understanding of software engineering and data analysis principles.
Proficiency in Python and a statistical package (e.g., R), and shell-scripting are required. Experience with bioinformatics tools (e.g., samtools, picard, GATK) is a plus. Familiarity with public genomic databases (COSMIC, ClinVar, cBioPortal, etc.) is required.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Strong drive for problem-solving and continuous improvement, with the perseverance to work through obstacles.
Effective communication and documentation skills, including presenting scientific results to a multi-disciplinary and geographically distributed team.
Ideal candidates will demonstrate a record of research productivity through scientific publications, conference presentations, or patents, and have experience with product development.
Ability to work across different cross-functional teams.
Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
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