Full-Time Senior Staff Bioinformatics Scientist

About the Role: Guardant Health is seeking a Bioinformatics Scientist to contribute to the vision of cancer care through liquid biopsies. Focus on early cancer screening, minimal residual disease detection, and therapy monitoring.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Investigate data integrating statistical and visualization techniques and biological knowledge.
• Design, prototype, and analyze performance of novel statistical/machine learning models.
• Develop reproducible analyses for research and development activities.
• Collaborate closely with Technology Development scientists on designing experiments to assess and improve assay performance.
• Communicate analysis results to stakeholders across computational and experimental teams.

Requirements:

• Ph.D. in computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, statistics, computer science, machine learning, or related fields
• 12+ years experience in industry/academia post-graduation
• Strong background in probability and statistics
• Extensive experience with analysis of genomic and/or epigenomic NGS data
• Expertise in python and associated statistics/ML/AI/data visualization packages
• Proficiency with Linux command-line and version control tools (git and GitHub)
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience analyzing external genomic/epigenomic datasets (e.g. TCGA, ENCODE)
• Familiarity with high-performance computing infrastructures (e.g., SGE, Spark)
• Experience leveraging AWS-based services (e.g., EC2, S3)
• Proficiency in C++

Hybrid work arrangement: onsite Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays for employees within 50 miles of a Guardant facility.

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