Caris is seeking a Staff Scientist to develop its core data products using its extensive multimodal clinico-molecular dataset to impact cancer precision medicine, ranging from early target discovery efforts, through clinical trial design, as well as impacting patient care today.
Requirements
- Deep experience analyzing and deriving insight from standard genomic data types (e.g., gene expression, whole exomes).
- Strong programming skills (python required) and experience working collaboratively on software development.
- Strong attention to detail and drive for scientific and technical rigor.
- Experience working with large datasets (e.g., hundreds, or thousands of bams).
- Experience working in an industry setting.
- Experience working with real-world datasets.
- Experience working in cloud (preferred) or high-performance compute (HPC) clusters.
Responsibilities
- Apply bioinformatics, data science, molecular biology, and computer science expertise to drive projects developing and refining Caris’ clinico-molecular data products for use by both external partners and internal Caris R&D.
- Communicate with external and internal partners on strategy as well as technical details of Caris data products.
- Educate partners on the use of Caris data products.
- Drive innovation by staying abreast of emerging data science tools, techniques, and best practices, and strategically incorporating them into our data products and workflows.
- Collaborate with research, clinical, and bioinformatics scientists to execute projects that translate scientific and clinical questions into analytical workflows, and exercise skill in delivering accurate data processing, quality control, and statistical analysis.
- Act as a subject matter expert on data science, collaborating with internal stakeholders, external partners, and customers to provide technical expertise, foster collaborations, and contribute to the development of joint research projects.
Other
- PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, or related quantitative fields.
- At least five years post-PhD work experience
- Strong communication skills: A primary responsibility of this role is external communication at both general and specialist levels. The ability to clearly present nuanced technical material to a variety of stakeholders is critical.
- Enthusiasm for working in a highly collaborative environment.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
