Job Summary: Molecular informatics postdoctoral fellowships are available for bioinformaticians and computational biologists who are looking to acquire informatics skills working as part of several major genome annotation and array and re-sequencing-based projects being conducted at Washington University, including Washington University's recently established Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI).

Essential Functions: The positions involve developing novel data repositories and software applications, applying these tools to support and facilitate translational research, and supporting the educational mission of the CBMI.

Preferred Qualifications: Candidates should have a Ph.D. in bioinformatics, computational biology or related field and significant experience in software engineering and information technology.

Please email a CV, a career plan, and contact information for three references to rakesh@wustl.edu (Rakesh Nagarajan).

Job Summary: Clinical informatics postdoctoral positions are available for medical and clinical informaticians who are looking to acquire significant experience in this growing field.

Essential Functions:  The positions involve Unified Modeling Language (UML)-based object model construction for representation of medical and clinical study information using well-established data standards, ontologies, and vocabularies, support of clinical research activities, development of software applications to warehouse and query the electronic medical record, and integration of clinical, pathology, and genome-wide profiling information.

 

Preferred Qualifications: Candidates should have a M.S. or Ph.D. in medical informatics or related field and experience in software engineering and information technology.

 

 Please email a CV, a career plan, and contact information for three references to rakesh@wustl.edu (Rakesh Nagarajan).

 

Job Title: Software Project Manager.   Apply.

Job Summary: Manages software projects, including overseeing team tasks, development of project plan, input in use cases/requirements, design, and object model, and timely submission of deliverables.

Essential Functions:

• Manages, organizes, and oversees software engineering teams (size 3-20).
• Develops project plan based on development cycle.
• Handles individual assignment of tasks and resource management.
• Contributes to use cases and requirements, design, and object model.
• Ensures project milestones are met.

Critical Skills/Expertise: Excellent oral and written communication, management, and interpersonal skills. Ability to see the ‘big picture’ and decompose into manageable and concrete tasks. Understanding of one or more biomedical informatics domains (e.g. medical informatics, clinical trials informatics, or molecular informatics) is desired. Required software technologies include:

• Proficiency in object oriented languages, UML, and RUP.
• Experience developing middleware and web-based and rich client applications.

Supervision: Management of teams composed of 3-20 members.

Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree in computer science or related field plus 3 years of experience in software project management.

Job Title: Biomedical Informatics Specialist.   Apply.

Job Summary: Assists in developing and conducting research projects, including experiment design, data analysis and documentation of experiment results.

Essential Functions:

• Analyzes data from high-throughput, massively parallel genomic data sets using existing software applications.
• Designs, develops, and implements minor enhancements to analysis and visualization tools to serve custom needs of each analysis performed in #1.
• Installs bioinformatics software applications on end users’ computer.
• Trains and provides technical support to end users on commonly used bioinformatics applications.
• Evaluates commercial and academic bioinformatics software.

Critical Skills/Expertise: Analytical, reasoning and problem solving skills. Good understanding of computational biology. Ability to analyze and interpret large complex data sets such as sequences, microarray gene expression studies, human genetic studies and model organism studies and to communicate data in a clear, concise manner. Expertise in standard bioinformatics tools. Working knowledge of regulatory networks, Hidden Markov Models and profile methods, human genetics (SNP etc.). Educated in standard molecular biology techniques (PCR, qRT-PCR, Northern Blots). Expertise in molecular and functional genomics techniques is desired. Required software technologies include:

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C/C++, Java and Perl.
• Experience in one or more web page development technologies such as HTML, DHTML, CGI, ASP, and JSP.
• Basic expertise (working knowledge of SQL) with one or more RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, DB2, and PostgreSQL.

Supervision: None.

Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree in bioinformatics or related field and a Bachelor’s degree or related field plus 2 years of experience in related field.

Job Title: Senior Biomedical Informatics Specialist.    Apply.

Job Summary: Assists in developing and conducting research projects, including experiment design, data analysis and documentation of experiment results.

Essential Functions:

• Analyzes data from high-throughput, massively parallel genomic data sets using existing software applications.
• Designs, develops, and implements:
  • Major enhancements of analysis and visualization tools or to serve the custom needs of each analysis performed in #1.
  • Novel applications and algorithms to serve the custom needs of each analysis performed in #1.
  • Independent bioinformatics research projects.
• Performs complex systems analysis of data and writes interpretative reports.
• Supervises junior bioinformaticists in their day to day activities.
• Manages one or more software development projects as the biomedical subject matter expert.
• Assists with grant preparation and reporting of methods, data and results.

Critical Skills/Expertise: Analytical, reasoning and problem solving skills. Good understanding of computational biology, probabilistic models, statistics, machine learning and discrete mathematics. Ability to analyze and interpret large complex data sets such as sequences, microarray gene expression studies, human genetic studies and model organism studies and to communicate data in a clear, concise manner. Expertise in standard bioinformatics tools. Working knowledge of regulatory networks, Hidden Markov Models and profile methods, human genetics (SNP etc.). Educated in standard molecular biology techniques (PCR, qRT-PCR, Northern Blots). Expertise in molecular and functional genomic techniques is desired. Required software technologies include:

• Proficiency in two or more programming languages such as C/C++, Java and Perl.
• Experience in two or more web page development technologies such as HTML, DHTML, CGI, ASP, and JSP.
• Advanced expertise (working knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL) with one or more RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, DB2, and PostgreSQL.

Supervision: None.

Preferred Qualifications: Ph.D. in bioinformatics or related field, Master’s degree or related field plus 2 years of experience in related field, and a Bachelor’s degree or related field plus 4 years of experience in related field.