Senior Computational Biologist

About the Department

Our Boston Research & Development hub, anchored in the greater Boston area, brings together the best minds in life science innovation. The teams located in facilities in Lexington, Watertown and Cambridge reflect the full R&D continuum, from early research through late-stage clinical development. Here, we are building for the future, creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas. We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. Our greater Boston R&D hub merges biotech speed and agility with large pharmaceutical company quality, resources,and stability, uniting the best of both worlds to develop new medicines for patients.

The Position

The Senior Scientist/Senior Computational Biologist – Pipeline Development, will be a key member of Dicerna's Systems biology team and will engage in multiple internal and partnered research and discovery efforts. Dicerna is seeking a highly motivated, experienced Ph.D. scientist to help in our siRNA drug discovery efforts. This is a hands-on research position that requires strong expertise in computational biology methodologies 

Relationships

This position reports to the  Head of Systems Biology

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with Computational Biologists, IT colleagues, and wet-lab scientists to address infrastructure and computational technology needsDevelop and maintain computational pipelines to analyze NGS data generated in house and externally
• Develop and automate computational analyses tools for multi-omics datasets (bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, etc.), and high-throughput screening data
• Apply computational biology methods to turn diverse data streams into scientific insights 
• Contribute to improving the software and hardware infrastructure underlying analysis pipelines, visualizations, and data apps
• Create effective data visualizations and communicate study results to cross-functional teams

Physical Requirements

up to 10% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

• Masters degree with with 5+ years of experience required
  • Ph.D. with 4+ years of experience in computational biology, bioinformatics, computer science or a related field may also be considered
• Relevant experience includes:
  • Working with NGS data in an academic or industry setting
  • Experience in Python, R, common data science packages and bioinformatic toolkits
  • Experience with computational pipeline development and maintenance in cloud (snakemake, nextflow, etc)
  • Experience with computational notebooks (i.e., Jupyter), version control (i.e., Git), good practice of code documentation, coding standards, and use of unit tests
• Expertise in Perl is a plus
• Experience with high performance computing cluster management is a plus
• Strong data visualization skills and experience developing data apps (Streamlit/Dash/Flask)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly explain computational analyses and their implications to team members of diverse backgrounds and drive decision-making 
• Able to structure and process qualitative/quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions
• Experience with cloud computing environments (AWS, Azure, etc.), databases, and web development is desirable.
• Contribution to development of bioinformatics pipelines/software with a strong track record of publications is desirable.

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