Senior Data Scientist - Genetics

About the role

The UPenn department of genetics is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for clinical genomic pipeline design and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement new quantitative strategies to improve our understanding and ability to diagnose genetic disorders through a large-scale genomic clinically grade testing.
• Develop, extend and apply computational pipelines for data-analysis to patient cohorts ranging from tens of individuals to hundreds of thousands.
• Execute these pipelines at scale via distributed software solutions on both local HPC and cloud-based assets.
• Work with molecular (WGS, panel-sequencing, RNA-Seq, proteomic) or imaging (digital pathology, radiomic) data, and have practical experience in one of these two areas.
• Have experience with implementation skills at least one of R, Perl or Python.
• Be comfortable in UNIX/Linux environments and produce well-documented code.
• Have multi-year experience (>10 years) with cloud-computing or HPC.

Requirements

• A Master of Science and 1 to 2 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• A Ph.D. preferred.

Qualifications

• Strong background in biology to help ensure the right questions are asked.
• Strong technical and personal communication skills to help ensure insights are broadly adopted and appropriate analyses are performed.

Skills

• Experience with implementation skills at least one of R, Perl or Python.
• Comfortable in UNIX/Linux environments and producing well-documented code.
• Multi-year experience (>10 years) with cloud-computing or HPC.

Benefits

The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

Pay

$100,000.00 - $160,000.00 Annual Rate

Schedule

This position is contingent upon grant funding.