Research Scientist, Bioinformatics

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Clinical Bioinformatics & Exploratory Analytics, as a part of the Gilead Clinical Data Science organization, supports drug development and other business use cases by providing analytical, engineering, and visualization solutions for clinical and multi-omics data. You will collaborate across functions to enable scientific and other business exploration and decision-making, including statistical analysis, genomic data processing and analysis, and machine learning.. You will lead design, development and implementation of statistical, bioinformatics and machine learning methods that integrate large multi-modal datasets to derive quantitative biological insights in support of virology clinical development, translation of clinical findings and other business decision-making. You will also contribute to presentations and publications of clinical genomics and biomarker findings either as conference publications, journal publications or regulatory documents.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plays a key role in both internal and external collaborations in the analysis of complex data sets, including but not limited to genomic, protein, and cytokine/chemokine data from patient samples together with clinical outcome data from Gilead's virology development programs.
• Develops predictive models using statistical techniques and machine learning for analysis of large omics and high dimensional data from internal, publicly available, commercial and Real-World datasets to enable target identification / assessment, drug combinations, understanding of MOA, disease mechanisms, etc.
• Designs and executes data analysis plans, communicates findings and recommends follow-up actions in multiple settings, including one-to-ones, seminars, group and project meetings.
• Participates in development of team and department-level standards, tools and templates.
• Develops and implements quality assessments, statistical analysis and data visualization for multi-omics datasets, e.g., RNA-Seq, single cell sequencing, WES, WGS, etc.
• Develops data dashboards, visualizations and analytical tools to improve visualization, integration, and accessibility of complex clinical data and enable data analysis and exploration by the broader Research & Development organization.
• Provides expertise and technical consultation for external collaborations/partnerships in academia and industry.
• Ensures assigned work complies with established practices, policies and processes and any regulatory or other requirements.

REQUIREMENTS:

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. Please see the following for the qualifications and skills we seek for this role.

Minimum Education & Experience

• PhD in statistics, data science, mathematics, bioinformatics, genomics, computer science or related discipline with some general business knowledge and work experience. PhD with 2+ years' bioinformatics or related experience is preferred.
• MS in statistics, data science, mathematics, bioinformatics, genomics, computer science or related discipline with 6+ years' bioinformatics or related experience.
• BS in statistics, data science, mathematics, bioinformatics, genomics, computer science or related discipline with 8+ years' bioinformatics or related experience.
• Significant experience working with multi-omics and large-scale biological datasets.
• Significant experience working with a broad range of statistical methods, including machine learning methods.
• Strong programming skills in key languages used by Bioinformatics, Data Science and Statistics, e.g., R, Python, etc., with proven capabilities to manipulate large and multi-dimensional datasets.
• Significant experience working with cloud computing systems, advanced statistical software and/or visualization tools.
• Strong proficiencies in problem-solving, bioinformatics or other data analytics algorithm design, genomic and proteomic technologies, and high throughput experimental techniques, e.g., next generation sequencing technologies, single cell technologies, and/or their applications.
• An understanding of infectious disease and/or immune system biology is preferred.
• Hands-on experience working with clinical or other human-derived data sets is preferred.
• A track record in publications within own field is preferred.

Knowledge & Other Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to be a fast learner.
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible and adaptable to change, to move between projects easily and provide support/expertise where needed.
• Proven analytical abilities with high attention-to-detail as demonstrated through past experiences and/or academic achievements, including statistical knowledge, such as probability theory, statistical power, univariate and/or multivariate analysis, unsupervised and supervised analysis, regression analysis, survival analysis, etc.
• Proven ability to conduct effective and efficient exploratory analysis on large volumes of data and identify key descriptive and inferential properties.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to lead and influence programs, projects and / or initiatives.

When needed, ability to travel (~5%).

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