Bioinformatician - Lotterhos Lab

Bioinformatician - Lotterhos Lab About the Opportunity About the Center for Marine Ecological Genomics

The successful candidate will be based at the Lotterhos Lab and the Center for Marine Ecological Genomics at Northeastern Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts. This is an in-person position.

We are seeking a skilled Bioinformatician to join our consortium in Marine Macrogenomics, which seeks to create a database ofinteroperable population genomic data for 5,000 genomes from 100species. The successful candidate will play a central role in developing and maintaining scalable computational pipelines for the analysis of large-scale genomic datasets, with a focus onshort-read alignment and population-level inference. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in ecological and conservation genomics.

Required

• Master's degree in Biology, Ecology and Evolution,Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genetics, or a related field
• 2-5 years of hands-on experience in bioinformatics, with demonstrated work in genomics
• Proficiency in short-read alignment tools such as BWA, Bowtie2,and STAR
• Familiarity with downstream processing tools such as SAMtools,Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK), and Picard
• Experience writing pipelines using workflow management systems such as Snakemake or Nextflow
• Solid scripting skills in Python, R, and Bash
• Comfort working on the command line, including in a Unix/Linux environment
• Familiarity with high-performance computing (HPC) andhigh-throughput computing (HTC) environments and job schedulerssuch as SLURM and HTCondor
• Experience using application programming interfaces (APIs) tosend and receive data and/or experience using tools to transferlarge amounts of data between remote servers

Preferred

• PhD or 3 years of post-Master's experience preferred
• Experience with population genomic analyses and tools such asANGSD, PLINK, ADMIXTURE, Tree Mix, or similar platforms
• Familiarity with handling non-model organism genomes orlow-coverage sequencing data
• Experience with version control systems such as Git and containerization technologies including Docker and Singularity/Apptainer
• Track record of contributing to published research

• Collaborate and coordinate with members of the network,including wet lab and computational team members, to define data standards, ensure analytical reproducibility, and assist with project goals
• Design, build, and maintain reproducible bioinformaticspipelines capable of scaling across many population genomicdatasets
• Align short-read sequencing data, including whole-genome and Restriction Site Associated DNA Sequencing (RADseq) datasets, toreference genomes using standard and emerging tools, and evaluatemapping quality across diverse datasets
• Perform downstream population genomic analyses, includingvariant calling, filtering, and quality control
• Document pipelines and analyses clearly for internal use and publication
• Develop educational tutorials and assist with website development
• Collate publicly available data and metadata, correspondingwith authors as necessary to ensure data standards

Research

Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paidtime off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- aswell as commuting & transportation. Visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). for more information.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion,color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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$67,855.00 - $95,845.00