Associate Staff Bioinformatics Engineer, QDI
Company: QIAGEN Gruppe
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: October 31, 2024
Job Description:
At the heart of QIAGEN's business is a vision to make
improvements in life possible.We are on an exciting mission to make
a real difference in science and healthcare. Our most valuable
asset are our employees - more than 6000 in over 35 locations
around the world. Our ambition is to ensure we have outstanding and
passionate people working in the best teams and we are constantly
looking for new talent to join us.If you are looking to advance
your career, are seeking new challenges and opportunities, enjoy
working in dynamic and international, diverse teams and want to
make a real impact on people's lives, then QIAGEN is where you need
to be.Join us. At QIAGEN, you make a difference every day.Position
DescriptionPosition DescriptionQIAGEN Digital Insights is a leading
provider of bioinformatics software and knowledge bases used by
life scientists to gain insight from the molecular information in
their biological samples. We have developed industry-leading
software tools for analysis and reporting of biological data. We
are passionate about our users, products, and our vision, and are
seeking smart, motivated engineers and scientists who are eager to
join our team in creating software that helps improve people's
lives.As a Bioinformatics Engineer, you will be part of a
collaborative, cross-functional team of scientists,
bioinformaticians, knowledge engineers, and software engineers
building powerful tools to gain biological insight into RNA-Seq and
DNA-Seq data. You will use your background in biological science
and programming skills to assure the scientific quality of
biological interpretations, supporting analytics, and information
in our applications. This is an excellent opportunity to be
directly involved in developing our technology, delivering a
high-quality product, and making an impact on human
healthcare.Responsibilities:
- Develop and improve pipelines for content acquisition including
targeted manual curation and automated processing of structured and
unstructured biological data.
- Work collaboratively with the other team members to make
decisions on content modeling and integration for all QIAGEN
products and services.
- Contribute to quality control and reliability efforts for our
processes, pipelines, tools, and models that support development,
build, and maintenance of our biological content.
- Review and refine data and software requirements, use cases,
and workflows for product features to ensure that they are
scientifically valid, technically robust, and testable.Position
RequirementsRequired:
- Domain knowledge evidenced by a graduate degree and applied
experience in genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, or
related field.
- Proven ability to solve problems using programming skills,
especially in Python, Perl, or Java. 5+ years of experience or
formal or advanced training preferred.
- Experience with database design and programming (e.g.
PostgreSQL, Oracle, Neo4j).Preferred (one or more of the
following):
- Experience in developing bioinformatics data pipelines
including testing and deployment to production systems.
- Experience in working with formalized Quality Assurance (QA)
processes within a Quality Management System (QMS).
- Strong understanding of medical genetics, pharmacogenetics,
molecular pathology, or oncology.
- Knowledge of information extraction (IE), data integration,
ontology, semantic technology, machine learning (ML), or natural
language processing (NLP).
- Knowledge of software development best practices, quality
controls, testing techniques.Personal Requirements
- Excellent critical and analytical thinking skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.What we
offerAt the heart of QIAGEN are our people who drive our success.
We act with passion, always challenging the status quo to drive
innovation and continuous improvement. We inspire with our
leadership and make an impact with our actions. We create a
collaborative, safe and engaging workplace which forms the basis
for high performing individuals and teams.QIAGEN is committed to
creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal
opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical
conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex
stereotyping, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national
origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical
condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship
status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other
status protected by applicable law.
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