Parse Biosciences

Parse Biosciences

Bioinformatics Engineer II (Remote/East Coast)

Eastern Time Zone (USA) · Mid · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$100k-$135kDetected 21 days ago
PythonBashCode ReviewGitData AnalysisData VisualizationControlsBioinformaticsNGSResearchCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • As a Bioinformatics Engineer II within the Trailmaker development team, you will play a key role in guiding the technical direction of the platform while contributing hands-on across the full stack.
  • An agile, diverse and multidisciplinary team.
  • A supportive, inclusive and transparent working environment where teammates learn from and help each other all the time.

Responsibilities

  • Design, prototype, develop, and test new computational pipelines and visualizations for single cell data analysis in Trailmaker.
  • Perform troubleshooting of customer analyses.
  • You'll collaborate closely with other engineers to architect and build new features that drive user engagement.
  • Someone excited about building tools that will be used by thousands of single cell researchers.
  • A track record of designing, building and improving data analysis software that solves user problems.

Requirements

  • A degree in bioinformatics (or similar) and 3+ total years of experience working in bioinformatics engineer roles.
  • Additional experience (5+ years) is necessary to be appointed at Bioinformatics Engineer II level.

Nice to have

  • Competency working with container-based cloud applications, ideally on AWS.
  • Experience using version control systems such as Git/GitHub is preferred.
  • Proficiency building pipelines with Nextflow or similar frameworks is preferred.

Skills

  • Practical experience of working with open source single cell data analysis tools and packages, including Scanpy and Seurat.
  • Strong data visualization skills.

Compensation

  • 12 paid holidays annually and a winter holiday break

Benefits

  • Parse Biosciences, a QIAGEN company, is a global life sciences company whose mission is to accelerate progress in human health and scientific research.
  • With >1200 monthly active users from top tier research institutions across the world, we're offering a rare opportunity to join our team and change the world by building tools that help to improve human health.
  • This position is home office based and will require a reliable internet connection and suitable workspace to fulfill job duties effectively.
  • Laptop and any other essential technical/home office equipment will be provided.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and Rx (prescription) coverage beginning on the 1st day of the month following your start date.
  • Basic life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage.
  • Flexible spending account (FSA) options for medical, dependent care, and commuter expenses

Company info

  • Parse Biosciences, a QIAGEN company, is a global life sciences company whose mission is to accelerate progress in human health and scientific research. Empowering researchers to perform single cell sequencing with unprecedented scale and ease, its pioneering approach has enabled groundbreaking discoveries in cancer treatment, tissue repair, stem cell therapy, kidney and liver disease, brain development, and the immune system.
  • Founded based on a transformative technology invented at the University of Washington, Seattle-based Parse has raised over $100 million and is used by over 3,000 labs across the world. Our growing portfolio of products includes Evercode Whole Transcriptome, Evercode TCR, BCR, Gene Capture, and Trailmaker, a software tool for data analysis.
  • We've built the most popular, freely available cloud-based platform for single cell RNA sequencing data analysis - Trailmaker. Trailmaker allows anyone to easily turn their single cell datasets into meaningful biology. With >1200 monthly active users from top tier research institutions across the world, we're offering a rare opportunity to join our team and change the world by building tools that help to improve human health.
  • Empowering researchers to perform single cell sequencing with unprecedented scale and ease, its pioneering approach has enabled groundbreaking discoveries in cancer treatment, tissue repair, stem cell therapy, kidney and liver disease, brain development, and the immune system.
  • Founded based on a transformative technology invented at the University of Washington, Seattle-based Parse has raised over $100 million and is used by over 3,000 labs across the world.
  • Our growing portfolio of products includes Evercode Whole Transcriptome, Evercode TCR, BCR, Gene Capture, and Trailmaker, a software tool for data analysis.
  • We've built the most popular, freely available cloud-based platform for single cell RNA sequencing data analysis - Trailmaker.
  • Trailmaker allows anyone to easily turn their single cell datasets into meaningful biology.
  • The user requirements for Trailmaker dictate a unique set of technical challenges.
  • Handling big data files, running custom data processing pipelines, on-the-fly computation, and providing interactive data visualisations with millions of data points are just some of the challenges our team is busy with!
  • Receive and incorporate feedback from customers and colleagues.
  • Experience and desire to work as part of a close-knit team.

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