Skills

Python Java Research

Job Specifications

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: San Diego, CA

Duration:6 months

Pay range : $90 to $99.91/hr on w2

Hybrid work; role requires onsite presence at least 50% of the time

Top Skills:

Strong coding skills in either R (preferred) and/or python. Experience in Java desired but not mandatory
Background in bioinformatics, experience working with RNA-Seq and other NGS data

About:

The Protein Homeostasis (PH) IPS team is part of the Informatics and Predictive Sciences division at client, with a strong focus on supporting early-stage pharmaceutical programs. This position will provide cross-portfolio support by enabling scientists to readily interrogate available molecular and meta-data across a diverse spectrum of pre-clinical, patient derived models (organoids, xenographs). The successful candidate will be responsible for QCing, harmonizing, and ingesting omics and other datasets programmatically, developing code to facilitate the principles of reproducible research. In addition this role will involve managing the incorporation of newly curated data into a proprietary interface to facilitate accessibility and visibility of patient derived models to scientists across client.

Responsibilities:

Compile and harmonize de-identified patient meta-data from multiple internal and external resources (includes clinical treatment history, clinical characteristics, patient demographics, model growth parameters, etc)
Compile and format omics datasets from multiple internal and external resources including RNASeq, DNASeq, Copy Number and scRNASeq datasets
Develop automated scripts to help harmonize datasets from multiple data sources
Load formatted datasets into a proprietary interface to enable access by all client employees
This role may extend to providing some high-level QC assessment of data sets based on a defined set of parameters

Requirements:

Strong coding skills in either R (preferred) and/or python. Experience in Java desired but not mandatory
Background in bioinformatics, experience working with RNA-Seq and other NGS data
Bachelors degree in bioinformatics, biology, computer science, or a related field, with 3+ years of hands-on bioinformatics experience after graduation, in industry or academia

Preferred : experience in cancer

About the Company

At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients' lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you'll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medic... Know more