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At Boston Children's Hospital, success is measured in patients treated, parents comforted, and teams taught. It's in discoveries made, processes perfected, and technology advanced. In major medical breakthroughs and small acts of kindness and in colleagues who have your back and patients who have your heart. As a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, our reach is global, and our impact is profound. Join our acclaimed research computing group and discover how your talents can change lives. Yours included.
Research Computing at Boston Children’s supports basic, translational, and clinical research by providing researchers with access to digital tools and technologies. The Research Computing teams work jointly to support the community through a unified request intake process and extensive on-line documentation. We also collaborate with BCH scientists to develop solutions in support of cutting-edge research ranging from lattice light-sheet microscopy to CryoEM, genomics, and informatics. Our computing environment consists of high-performance computing clusters, virtual machines, PetaByte-scale high-performance storage and cloud platforms. Join our acclaimed research computing group and discover how your talents can change lives.
You will work with researchers who have long-reads whole genome sequencing, RNA-seq, Hi-C, ChIP-seq data to investigate a genetic risk for strabismus in children as well as with other pediatric scientists at BCH. The primary responsibilities will be building pipelines for the analysis, integration and sharing of these data. You will analyze, integrate different types of next generation sequencing data and interpret the results. The ideal candidate should have enthusiasm for developing collaborative relationships and a desire to foster the use of bioinformatics data in research studies.
In order to qualify you must have: Minimum of 4-year Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Minimum of two-years of advanced bioinformatics experience. Preference for candidates with a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Computational biology or related. Extensive knowledge of the use of bioinformatics computations in high performance computing environments, including open source bioinformatics software and pipelines to support diverse bioinformatics analyses such as bulk RNA-seq, WGS, ChIP-seq, etc. Experience working with at least one of the following technologies: RNA-seq, HiC, ChIP-seq, WES, long read sequencing data, scRNA-seq. Ability to follow stringent data privacy requirements where applicable. Extensive knowledge of technologies used in support of biomedical research, such as programming languages (R and Python), databases (SQL), version control (Git), scientific workflow tools and high performance computing clusters. Cloud computing tools would be a bonus. Ability to independently resolve a wide range of research computing assignments in support of biomedical research; ability to routinely lead projects and coordinate project teams; readiness to seek advice and guidance when needed and to operate effectively in collaboration with scientists and clinicians; ability to follow, improve and create technical documentation and standard operating procedures. Strong publication record. Ability to effectively convey messages through written communication that are tailored to target audience; meeting discussions and one-on-one verbal communications are clear and effective; ability to conduct effective meetings, to present in departmental and hospital forums and to develop training instructions and manuals; experience with teaching and effective mentoring; ability to effectively engage with scientists and clinicians.
You will be responsible for:
Providing computational support services to Boston Children's Hospital scientists and clinicians by applying a wide range of bioinformatics tools, methods and technologies; with minimal supervision and direction, completing assignments in the required timeframe; consistently adhering to and promoting standard operating procedures and best practices; maintaining and upgrading research computing tools, methods and technologies, migrating
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