Computational Scientist
Seattle, Washington
Posted on: July 19, 2021
Industry: Scientists / Research / Lab Technician
Job Number: JN -072021-67263
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of a body of internal R packages aimed at standardizing our data workflows
- Collaborate with translational scientists to build and maintain production-grade R Shiny applications that enable efficient quality monitoring of large volumes of continuously flowing data
- Collaborate with translational scientists to refine and implement internally developed data QC algorithms
- Develop data objects (products) per scientific use-cases, following internally established data development workflows
- Collaborate with data managers and engineers to specify data models and data API endpoints to enable development of R Shiny applications that facilitate non-programmatic interaction with our translational data
Qualification and Experience
- BS degree with 4+ years of experience, a M.Sc. degree with 2+ years of experience or a recent PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Bioinformatics or similar fields
- Driven to deliver solutions that impact patients’ lives
- Strong desire to learn with an interest in immuno-oncology and cellular therapy
- Experienced in interdisciplinary collaborations at the interface of data science and life sciences
- Command of data science stack of tools: R/Python, notebooks and git
- Experience with R Shiny, Dash, Plotly, Streamlit, or other reactive visualization framework
- Experienced in R package development
- Experience with APIs, or ability to quickly learn how to use them (e.g. R httr or Python requests)
- Experienced in data visualization and analytics
- Experienced in setting up data workflows that interface with diverse ecosystem of data platforms and APIs
- Computing proficiency:
- Base knowledge of Linux OS and interaction with cloud-resources particularly AWS