Computational Biologist – Snapi Health – Remote Part Time

Computation Biologist (remote)

About Snapi Health

www.snapihealth.com

Snapi health is the first consumer-facing test kit focused on monitoring and improving gut health in the first thousand days.
Job Title:
Data Scientist / Computational Scientist / Bioinformatician / Bioinformatic Scientist

This is a remote position
Position Summary
As our lead computational biologist, you will be working closely with our co-founders, and the rest of the team of engineers, product managers, and designers to design and develop a consumer-facing report to help parents monitor, understand and improve their baby’s gut development.

This position will participate in all aspects in our data collection, and analysis and contribute to our development of consumer facing report, and scientific research.

An ideal candidate will:

• Have extensive experience in advanced bioinformatics,

• Be able to work both independently and collaboratively to extract mechanistic information from microbiota high-throughput data,

• Be able to develop research lines in the areas of gut ecology concerning species interactions, gut metabolism, and cross-feeding, and microbiota modulatory strategies in both health and clinical applications,

• Be expected to work closely with our bench scientists, technological professionals, AI scientists and clinicians.

The role requires dedication, flexibility, excellent communication and organizational skills to successfully advance our research agenda and achieve our corporate mission.

This position reports to the CEO.

Major Responsibilities:

• Construct microbiota species and strain resolution profiles using reference-based approach, including short and long reads
• Work closely with product manager and engineer to understand what data is needed for product development
• Establish processes for integration of data with machine learning & AI modeling
• Use machine learning effectively and develop new analysis strategies for large biological datasets (e.g. 16S, metagenomics)
• Propose new biological hypotheses for microbial drivers of pathology and therapy, based on high throughput data, lit review, and in house experiments; develop and perform statistical tests of these hypotheses.
• Design and analyze microbial function and phenotype experiments
• Work with clinicians to help design and analyze clinical trials (particularly of microbial therapeutics)
• Communicate analysis results with effective graphical output to a users.
• Work effectively as part of a multifunctional team in support of a commercially viable consumer report.

Requirements:

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Ph.D. in bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology, bioengineering, microbiology, chemistry, or a related field.

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Proven experiences and skills sets in computational analysis of datasets, particularly from 16sRNA and metagenomic sequencings

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Extensive experience with two or more programming languages, especially R and Python, as well as their scientific libraries.

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An understanding of common bioinformatics file formats (FASTQ, SAM/BAM, VCF, BED).

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Be able to work independently and collaboratively

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Passionate about science and be self-motivated

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Take ownership of your assignment and proactively propose solutions to drive research

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Work easily in a multicultural and multilingual environment. Additional Skills and Expertise (Desired but not necessary):

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PhD in computational biology with strong expertise in microbiome/metabolome data analysis

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Experience with Illumina NGS technologies and platforms.

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Experience with PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, 10X, or Strand-seq technologies.

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Experience in strain level analysis of individual bacteria or microbiome.

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Experience with the analysis of metabolomics and proteomics datasets

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Skilled with Linux/Unix and comfortable working in a command line environment

More About the Position

Application
Apply today. We’d love to hear from you.

Note to Employment Agencies: Please DO NOT forward any agency resumes. The company WILL NOT be responsible for any fees related to resumes that are unsolicited.

Snapi Health is an environment that is truly collaborative, collegial and fun. Statement of Equal Employment Opportunity

Snapi Health Technology Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Temporary

Pay: $80,000.00 – $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Remote

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