Senior) Bioinformatics Engineer

Company: Pendulum.co
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 9, 2021

Job Description:

Pendulum-- is on a mission to help people improve physical and mental health by creating a new category of products that target the microbiome. We are researching, developing and commercializing a novel class of rationally-designed Live Synbiotics--- (probiotics + prebiotics) that have demonstrated clinical efficacy to treat conditions like metabolic syndrome, inflammation and neurodegeneration. Pendulum has created proprietary pipelines to build a unique discovery platform that identifies key, novel bacterial strains and the prebiotics that feed them. We are a highly collaborative team of scientists, engineers, physicians, marketers and salespeople interested in improving human health by using the latest research from diverse fields, such as microbiology, molecular biology, high-throughput genomics, distributed computing, pharmaceutical development and nutrition. We believe strongly in an individual's transparency and strong communication to enable the most effective and efficient path to team success. If you're interested in building a new category of products that will help improve the lives of people globally and you love working in a cross-functional, collaborative, inspiring environment, please continue reading! We are seeking a (Senior) Bioinformatics Engineer to contribute to our mission by developing our discovery platform. You will design, build, test, and deploy bioinformatics pipelines and web applications for our manufacturing and R&D teams. You will collaborate with two types of users, the scientists in the lab with no software engineering knowledge, and the data scientists developing data-analysis workflows and other software products. We would like to have you in the office for this full-time role, but we are open to remote work and contract-to-hire for the right candidate. What You'll Do:

• In collaboration with data scientists, develop tools to analyze data from high performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, flow cytometry, 16S amplicon and whole genome shotgun genome sequencing analyses.
• Collaborate with data scientists to fix bugs in our data-analysis workflow code--
• Present complex results, both verbally and in writing, to the company at-large Knowledge Requirements:
  • Passion for learning and improving yourself and the team around you
  • 3+ years developing in Python (experience with R is a plus)
  • Experience working in AWS cloud computing environment using services such as AWS Batch, AWS RDS, AWS ECS.
  • Strong background in a Linux environment--
  • Experience with data-analysis workflow management software such as Luigi, Snakemake, Airflow, Nextflow, etc.
  • Experience with containerization such as Docker.
  • Comfortable in an environment where your work is self-directed and deliverables will be prioritized based on best judgement--
  • Ability to teach others and willingness to learn new techniques
  • Comfort and extensive experience working in cross-functional teams with multiple internal customers - you're comfortable approaching others to gather and confirm requirements
  • Belief in transparency and open communication Pendulum's-----team is as diverse as a healthy microbiome. We welcome all to apply.

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