Hiring now: Senior Bioinformatics Scientists NGS Applications - Boston area
 

Organization: GenomeQuest
Job Location: Westborough, Massachusetts (just outside of Boston)
Salary & Benefits: Very competitive

Job Description:
You: a better Bioinformatician than anyone around you, with heaps of experience working in NGS; completely unafraid of numbers like “hundreds of billions”; your software tools and bioinformatics approaches delight the researchers you support".

Us:The thriving world class leading provider of NGS solutions to pharma, ag, and research; owner of the powerful GenomeQuest Engine for sequence data management and a massive compute cluster to play on; ten year old successful company exploding in the new world of NGS; more bioinformatics problems than we can handle without you; experts at ping pong and Guitar Hero.

The Job: Manage the successful deployment and customization of GenomeQuest to our customers. Build killer NGS workflows that create beautifully interactive reports both for customers and for core product. Be the outward facing voice of the company in the bioinformatics field. Amaze your colleagues with your ability to balance three projects too many. Occasional travel around the US and Europe. (We have an office in Paris)

Responsibilities
Custom services including development of new bioinformatics workflows based on customer, sales, or strategic needs; creation of Statements of Work, accurate costing of proposed customer development projects, management of technical resources to ensure on-time delivery
Pre-sales support including technical presentations, development of project proposals, training

Post-sales support including management of customer evaluations, communication of new product features, regular customer follow-up, identification of account growth opportunities, training
Bridge-building between customer needs and Product Management to drive productization of customer projects into future revs of standard GenomeQuest product

Industry Canary: evaluate market needs and trends on an ongoing basis through conference attendence, customer interactions, trade press
Evangelize the company through scientific conference attendance, scientific presentations, other speaking engagements, white papers

Requirements:
Degree in life sciences or computer science; M.S. or Ph.D. preferred
At least 5 years experience in bioinformatics or life science research IT
Customer service orientation; proven capabilities interacting with customers
Outstanding presentation and communication skills
Extensive knowledge of bioinformatics tools and applications
Strong programming skills in Perl, Java, PHP, HTML, C++ a plus
Very comfortable working at the UNIX/LINUX command line, HPC
Demonstrated ability to operate singly and as part of a team

About Our Organization:
GenomeQuest, the global leader in sequence data management, helps life science organizations realize the full promise of genomics. Over 160 leading health and agriculture companies use GenomeQuest for mission-critical work, including nine of the top ten pharmaceuticals. The core technology of the company is the GQ-Engine - a sequence database engine that is purpose-built for storing, managing, and analyzing NGS sequence data at whole- and multi-genome scale.


Contact Information: jobs@genomequest.com