Associate Director Integrative Translational Genetics
Company | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals |
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Location | Cambridge, MA, USA, Tarrytown, NY, USA |
Salary | $173500 – $283100 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | PhD |
Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Statistical Genetics, Human (Population) Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology or related field with good computational skills
- At least 3 years of relevant post-doc experience
- Experience with setting up a codebase for human genetic studies in a high-performance computing environment
- Experience in Git and scripting or programming languages
- Proficiency in R and R-Shiny
- Interest in understanding the genetic basis and causes of Cardiometabolic disease
Responsibilities
- Develop new analytical approaches, data processing pipelines and establish internal data practices
- Collaborate with the Genomes informatics and Analytical Genomics team to develop and integrate new functionality into browsers and tools hosted on AWS
- Enable others in the team to implement analytical approaches by automating them, designing interfaces and support code development in R
- Mine the 1M+ sequencing data to generate new biological hypotheses around cardiometabolic disease
- Generate, summarize and present results in internal and external meetings to a variety of audiences
- Deliver reliable analyses across projects in a dynamic, high-pace and creative working environment
- Lead and contribute to the writing of scientific reports and publications
Preferred Qualifications
- A strong work ethic and are proactive in providing solutions
- Experience with the various applications of statistical genetics to obtain new insights into human biology
- Ideas to move this field forward