Bioinformatics Specialist at New York University School of Medicine

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Our laboratory is seeking an energetic and highly motivated Bioinformatics Specialist to work in the area of immunology, virology, and mouse genetics. We are a dynamic and diverse group of scientists, located at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan at First Avenue and 30th Street.

http://saturn.med.nyu.edu/research/mp/littmanlab/

Principal Responsibilities
• Working with postdoctoral fellows to build informatics pipelines for analyzing large amounts of Illumina RNA- and ChIP-Seq data, as well as 454 metagenomic data
• Developing custom scripts to conduct analyses designed by lab members
• Managing several compute nodes in collaboration with NYU’s Health Informatics and Bioinformatics HPC cluster team
• Thoroughly documenting code and logging work done to ensure reproducibility of results
• Building graphical user interfaces which allow lab members to access their results efficiently

Minimum Qualifications
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in biology, statistics, computer science or a related field
• Minimum 2 years research experience, preferably in a life sciences laboratory
• Able to work independently and as a team member
• Able to learn complex tasks with general instruction
• Actively seeks opportunities to increase skills and expertise
• Fluent in UNIX command line and shell scripting (do you run Linux on your laptop?)

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience coding in Python, Perl, R, or MATLAB, especially in a biological context
• Proficiency in developing web UIs on a LAMP stack, especially with CakePHP
• Familiarity with widely-used bioinformatics tools (e.g. BLAST, BWA, Bowtie/TopHat, Cufflinks, SAMTools, Newbler, and MACS)
• Knowledge of systems administration and networking
• A background in biology, especially immunology
• Experience writing highly-parallel code for a cluster
• Experience working with git or another version control system, especially in the context of collaborative development
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills; you’ll be following the lead of computer-naïve biologists and must be able to effectively describe your algorithm and the results

Why this is a great job
• You’ll get a competitive salary commensurate with experience, and excellent benefits
• This isn’t a core facility job—you will be working directly with researchers full-time on exciting research projects and your work will be recognized with authorship on any resulting publications
• You will be encouraged and expected to broaden your knowledge by attending seminars, conferences, and NYU classes relevant to your work

Please send a cover letter and contact information for three references with your resume to:

Jeff Blenker (jeff.blenker@med.nyu.edu)
Dan Littman Laboratory
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
New York University School of Medicine