RESEARCH SCIENTIST ENGINEER 2
Req #: | 172075 |
Department: | GENOME SCIENCES: BROTMAN BATY INSTITUTE |
Job Location: | Health Sciences Center, Seattle Campus |
Posting Date: | 11/04/2019 |
Closing Info: | Open Until Filled |
Salary: | Salary is commensurate with education and experience. |
Shift: | First Shift |
Notes: |
As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on Benefits for this position, click here.
Please note that this position has been reposted. If you have already submitted your application, you need not submit it again, as it has already been received. |
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for four consecutive years.
The new Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine currently has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist 2 position at the intersection of cutting-edge technology development and medicine. The institute bridges the University of Washington, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children’s Hospital. The Advanced Technology Lab is administratively part of the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington and located at UW Medical Center. The mission of the Advanced Technology Lab is to make cutting-edge ‘-omics’ technologies, including many developed by labs at the member institutions, broadly available to the Institute’s research community. These technologies include scalable assays for single cell molecular profiling and functional profiling of genetic variants.
Position Purpose:
This Advanced Technology Lab position represents an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer 2 to fill a unique scientist role at the nexus between functional genomics and medical genetics. We seek an individual with strong molecular and organizational skills to help build and perform a production protocol for a new single cell molecular profiling method.
Responsibilities:
This is a unique position that requires significant motivation to learn and understand new scientific methods. The Research Scientist along with senior lab members will be responsible for optimizing and building a data production pipeline for a single cell chromatin profiling method that will be new to the BATlab.
Research Support:
Minimum Requirements:
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
Application Process:
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