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HSS is consistently among the top-ranked hospitals for orthopedics and rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report. As a recipient of the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, HSS was the first hospital in New York City to receive the distinguished designation. Whether you are early in your career or an expert in your field, you will find HSS an innovative, supportive and inclusive environment.
Working with colleagues who love what they do and are deeply committed to our Mission, you too can be part of our transformation across the enterprise.
Emp Status
Regular Full time
Work Shift
Compensation Range
The base pay scale for this position is $82,500.00 - $126,000.00. In addition, this position will be eligible for additional benefits consistent with the role. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to: scope of role, level of experience, education, accomplishments, internal equity, budget, and subject to Fair Market Value evaluation. The hiring range listed is a good faith determination of potential compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Bioinformatics Analyst 2 working as a part of the research team and independently contributes to the development and maintenance of data processing pipelines, analytical workflows, and software for the ingestion, processing, management, annotation, and analysis of high-throughput genomic data, and prepares for further analyses, research, submission to public databases, or publication.
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
1-5 years of quantitative genomics analyses in academic or industrial settings.Prior computational genomics research experience.
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE PREFERRED
PHYSICAL WORKING CONDITIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS
HAZARDS OSHA
NA
POSITION & UNIT ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Develops and maintains new data processing pipelines and analytical workflow and software tools, and writes code for specific analyses.
• Following established procedures or specific scientific protocols, performs analysis of genomic data, performs quality assurance, and transforms and loads data for use by other analysts or scientists. Provide support to existing personnel for data analysis.
• Integrates and analyzes data from a variety of internal and external projects
• Works with basic and clinical scientists to translate scientific goals into analytical strategies and process requirements.
• Perform data mining using various internal resources, public sequencing, and literature databases.
• Use best practices for code development and documentation
• Organize, annotate, integrate, and communicate genomic data and other relevant data types to create static and interactive reports, SOPs, code documentation, graphic presentations, or publishable images
EDUCATION REQUIRED
MS in quantitative disciplines or life sciences or higher with 1-5 years of experience.
EDUCATION PREFERRED
CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURE REQUIRED
CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURE PREFERRED
SKILLS REQUIRED
Extensive prior experience in computational development and automation for genomics data processing pipelines.
Extensive prior experience in genomics data analysis.
Proficiency with UNIX-based operating systems, shell scripting
Experience with high-performance cluster and cloud computing (AWS) environments.
Proficiency with at least one programming language, R, Python, SQL. Experience with the R package and Shiny App development
Experience with the Nextflow workflow management system
Extensive experience with public databases and tools (NCBI, ENCODE, ENSEMBL, UCSC Genomics Browser etc.)
Experience with version control tools (Git)
Experience with image processing software and a basic understanding of image formats
SKILLS PREFERRED
Package and interactive application development with R, including static and interactive data visualization (ggplot2, plotly, d3). Extensive experience with data processing and transformation methods in R (tidyverse, data.table). Extensive experience with R Bioconductor.
Development and implementation of automated Next Generation Sequencing pipelines. Nextflow
Familiarity with RNAseq, ChipSeq, ATACseq, CUT&RUN, single-cell RNASeq and spatial transcriptomics (Xenium, Visium).
Basic familiarity with web development, HTML, CSS, javascript.
Understanding machine learning techniques, including predictive modeling and pattern recognition in complex and noisy data.
Record of scientific/computational achievements including journal publications, conference presentations, public well-documented git repositories, public database/code repository submissions etc.
Non-Discrimination Policy
Hospital for Special Surgery is committed to providing high quality care and skilled, compassionate, reliable service to our community in a safe and healing environment. Consistent with this commitment, Hospital for Special Surgery provides care, admits, and treats patients and provides all services without regard to age, race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, national origin, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, veteran or military status, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law or by accreditation standards.
