SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Req #: | 171666 |
Department: | GENOME SCIENCES (BROTMAN BATY INSTITUTE) |
Posting Date: | 09/05/2019 |
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. |
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The Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine (BBI) is a recently launched, joint venture of the University of Washington, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children’s Hospital, made possible by a $50 million gift from the Brotman and Baty Families. The BBI Advanced Technology Lab is a new entity within this institute tasked with making cutting-edge ‘-omics’ technologies broadly available to the Institute’s research community. Through the BBI Advanced Technology Lab, the institute will have the capacity to generate transcriptomic profiles from at least 10 million single cells across 30 investigator-initiated projects from all three institutions. We will soon start operating as a cost center, taking on projects first from BBI members followed by an expansion to the wider research community.
The Department of Genome Sciences currently has an outstanding opportunity for a SOFTWARE ENGINEER.
Position purpose:
The purpose of the BAT-lab Analysis Team is to train BBI member labs in currently available single cell informatics in order to glean biological insights from the data generated by the BAT-lab. In addition, the team will continue to develop novel algorithms to integrate and visualize data across projects, tissues, time courses, etc. The BBI anticipates the capacity to generate additional datasets including single-cell chromatin accessibility profiling and co-assays as appropriate for specific projects. As a Lead Single Cell Genomic Data Analyst for BAT-lab Analysis team the candidate would be responsible for:
Software Engineering and Data Analysis: 85%
Lab Meetings: 10%
Publications: 5%
Minimum requirements:
Preferred qualifications:
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