Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus’ proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

We are seeking a highly motivated and capable NGS Services Bioinformatics to support client-facing project teams developing bespoke molecular processes.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Novel analysis of sequencing data using Open Source tools and packages. Novel development tools inside and outside Tempus pipelines
• Process data from a variety of instruments, methodologies, and novel technologies new to Tempus
• Contribute in collaboration with cross-functional team members to process improvement & experimental design
• Interpret and visualize results using a variety of methods, from data aggregation to statistical analysis
• Communicate findings in a clear and logical manner to help stakeholders make scientific decisions based on standard and bespoke data analysis
• Use SQL and other scripting languages to retrieve relevant data from various bioinformatics databases
• Reviews code/work of fellow team members
• Function to bridge the gap between wet-bench lab staff needs with laboratory information systems engineers to enable the development of a built for purpose LIMS functionality
• Perform queries of internal LIMs and data structures
• Aggregate information pulled from datasets of quantitative and qualitative nature to compile and present reports, tables, and charts for project endpoints
• Use Python and/or R to perform statistical analyses
• Support alignment and visualization of NGS data for troubleshooting

Ideal Candidates Will Possess

• Ph.D no academic/industry experience; M.S. and 0-3 years; B.S. 3+ years of academic/industry experience
• Programming skills: SQL, Bash, Python or R 
• Computational biology skills using Python, R, and/or Bioconductor
• Advanced knowledge of genome browsers, aligners, and visualization tools
• Advanced knowledge of statistical modeling methods, Open Source NGS analysis tools
• Knowledge and understanding of Next Generation Sequencing, and molecular biology
• Demonstrated ability to learn and integrate new information and technologies quickly
• Self-driven and works well with interdisciplinary team with minimal direction
• Experience with communicating insights and presenting concepts to a diverse audience
• Familiarity with cloud computing environments

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