Job description
Function/Duties of Position:
Collaboration:
All are welcome: Oregon Health & Science University values a diverse and culturally competent workforce. We are proud of our commitment to being an equal opportunity, affirmative action organization that does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of any protected class status, including disability status and protected veteran status. Individuals with diverse backgrounds and those who promote diversity and a culture of inclusion are encouraged to apply. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Department at 503-494-5148 or aaeo@ohsu.edu.
As an organization devoted to the health and well-being of people in Oregon and beyond, OHSU requires its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
This position is a member of the Computational Biology Program. Supports OHSU investigators in the conduct of original research in service to the OHSU mission to improve human health, building and leveraging platform-based tools and biological understanding while working in a team-oriented data processing, data analysis and software development environment, working with high-dimensional data (omic, imaging, phenotypic), following best practices such as literature currency, tool benchmarking and code sharing through GitHub. Duties include teamwork, client interaction, cross-core collaboration, requirements gathering, data management, pipeline building, shared tool development, custom analysis with data modeling and machine learning, and contributions to manuscripts and grant applications.
Collaboration:
- Work with team members to build and maintain common code repository, bioinformatic best practices and team engagement.
- Work with investigators to triage requests, establish requirements, communicate ongoing work, interpret results and build community.
- Work with other cores to collaborate on support of investigator projects and to build and maintain shared workflows and seamless services.
Data Management:
- Wrangle, clean, structure and store investigator data.
- Assist in building, populating and/or maintaining a searchable, browsable system storing raw omic and imaging data, sample metadata, data generation and data processing provenance, and custom analysis results.
Pipelines:
- Work with platform development teams to implement scalable high-performance workflows to support the research community with analytical advances and to disseminate best practices to the computational community.
- Provide documentation and user support allowing computational researchers across campus to access and re-use analysis pipelines.
Tools:
- Responsible for undertaking and managing software development using structured software engineering best practices.
- Collaboratively build, publish and re-use high-performance open-source code.
Education:
- Master's Degree in Computational Biology or related field AND 3 years of relevant experience OR
- Bachelor's Degree in Computational Biology or related field AND 6 years of relevant experience
Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies):
- Demonstrated excellence in research related to genomic analysis, machine learning, or image analysis, including experience with next-gen sequencing or medical imaging.
- Advanced skills in a high level programming language, preferably Python or R, preferably in Linux or Unix, optionally with Java or C/C++.
- An understanding of machine learning, data modeling or statistical techniques, such as mixed-model regression, principal component analysis, classifier construction and validation, biomarker discovery and optimization methods.
- Experience using structured engineering methods for specifying, designing, and implementing systems.
- Experience with architecture and tools for managing “omics” data OR imaging data.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks at one time.
- Excellent communication, analytical and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team while being collaborative in resolving problems.
Experience:
- 7+ years of work experience as a computational biologist, bioinformatician, biostatisticial, cheminformatician or other data science analyst or biological researcher.
- Two years team science experience in a collaborative research environment.
- One year of hands-on experience with generation and analysis of omic or imaging data.
Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies):
- At least 3 years work experience in a professional, team-oriented computational biology environment.
- High performance computing experience.
- A passion for open-access innovation
Work locations include one or more OHSU campuses, with an option for some remote work.
All are welcome: Oregon Health & Science University values a diverse and culturally competent workforce. We are proud of our commitment to being an equal opportunity, affirmative action organization that does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of any protected class status, including disability status and protected veteran status. Individuals with diverse backgrounds and those who promote diversity and a culture of inclusion are encouraged to apply. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Department at 503-494-5148 or aaeo@ohsu.edu.
As an organization devoted to the health and well-being of people in Oregon and beyond, OHSU requires its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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