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Function/Duties of Position

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.

Required Qualifications

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.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Additional Details

Work locations include one or more OHSU campuses, with an option for some remote work.

All are welcome