Senior Computational Biologist (External Collaborations)
Location
New York, NY
Level
Senior
Department
Research
Type
Full - Time
Salary
Job Description
Posted on:
January 13, 2023
You will be working in a fast-paced and research-driven external collaborations team to lead projects with our pharma, biotech, and academic partners. Through this position, you will have the opportunity to work with biologists, immunologists, computational biologists, machine learning specialists, and the business development team to design, execute, and disseminate data analyses leveraging single cell multiomics for immuno-oncology and autoimmune disease research applications.
Responsibilities
- Drive novel research by leading computational biology efforts for industry and academic partnership projects in immuno-oncology and autoimmune diseases
- Liaise with external and internal stakeholders to define research objectives and analysis plans
- Execute rigorous and reproducible data analysis using state of the art methods
- Maintain close collaboration with a highly multidisciplinary internal team throughout the life cycle of each project to ensure successful delivery
- Clearly communicate findings to external stakeholders in the form of presentations and data reports
- Devise and implement new approaches to push the boundaries of Immunai’s capabilities
- Champion Immunai core values
Job Requirements
- Experience in multi-omic data analysis including bulk and single-cell transcriptomics (8-10 yrs relevant experience; MSc w/ 6+ yrs experience or PhD w/ 2+ years postdoctoral experience)
- Expertise in current bioinformatics and computational biology tools, methods, and applications; Strong ability to develop and test data analysis code (R or Python's pandas)
- Expertise in distilling multi-faceted analyses into concrete conclusions with effective data visualizations and presentations
- Experience leading large scale initiatives and projects demonstrated through first author peer-reviewed publications in relevant subject areas and/or project lead roles in industry positions
- Keen interest in biology and immunology with demonstrated research experience in immuno-oncology and/or autoimmune diseases
- Background in ML/AI
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to represent Immunai to external collaborators as well as operate effectively on a diverse and collaborative internal team
