Scientist, Microbiome Bioinformatics

As a privately‑owned,biopharmaceutical company, Ferringpioneers and delivers life‑changing therapies that help people build families and live better lives. Our independence helps us cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit and long‑term perspective that enables us to achieve growth and scale, whileremainingagile and true to our ‘people first’ philosophy. Built on a 70‑year plus commitment to science and research, Ferring is relentless in its pursuit of science that drives powerful discoveries and therapies to help people build families, stay healthy, and stand up to the world’s oldest enemy: disease.

The Scientist, Microbiome Bioinformatics will use industry standard software development techniques to develop and support novel analytical methods, and translate large datasets into mechanistic and therapeutic hypotheses through omics analysis approaches. We are looking for someone who enjoys a fast‑paced environment and who can apply their expertise to fuel biological discoveries and analytical advancement.

With Ferring, you will be joining a recognized leader, identified as one of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company, and honored by Fortune with inclusion on its “Change the World List,” for addressing society’s unmet needs. Ferring US is also Great Places to Work® Certified, distinguishing it as one of the best companies to work for in the country.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and run reproducible genomic workflows and methods for microbiome data analysis, from raw data ingestion through final analytical outputs.
• Use continuous improvement/ Delivery (CI/CD) models, containerization, cloud computing (AWS Preferred), rigorous testing and Dev Ops to support research & production goals.
• Collaborate on integrated data mining and translation of bioinformatic insights for R&D, pre‑clinical and clinical initiatives.
• Translate published and novel scientific methods and analytical requirements into modular, reusable, and scalable computational workflows.
• Maintain workflows throughout their lifecycle, including troubleshooting, performance optimization, dependency updates, and adaptation to evolving scientific requirements.
• Develop automated tests to verify workflow functionality, analytical correctness, data integrity, and compliance with defined requirements.
• Create, curate and maintain datasets, databases and resources for annotation and use of complex omics data.
• Achieve project‑specific deliverables with stakeholders (internal and external) through collaboration, requirements gathering, and timeline management.
• Contribute to publications in peer‑reviewed journals, as well as any methodological innovations.
• Present and defend scientific work in the form of internal and external presentations.
• Critical evaluation of primary literature for design and analysis of appropriate experiments to reach timely project Go/No‑Go decisions.
• Continuous learning in the bioinformatics, computer science and biological field including methodologies, techniques, and resources.

• Advanced degree(e.g.MSorPh.D.)in computer science, bioinformatics, genomics, biostatistics or relatedbiologicalfield.
• Minimum of one year of experience in the field of omics sciences, preferably the microbiome.
• Proficiency in developing, deploying, and running cloud‑based bioinformatic workflows.
• Proven experience in Linux, AWS, coding in Python and R.
• Excellent writing, communication, and other organizational skills including documentation & data organization.
• Prefer experience in statistical computing for data mining, exploratory analysis and biomarker discovery related to the microbiome or other
  -omes.
• Prefer experience working in regulated environments.

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