LCGS71- Bioinformatics Analyst, PhD

Company Overview:

 

LCG Systems is committed to being an innovative, employee-led, customer-focused IT service provider, in the Health IT arena.  A proven provider of secure IT solutions that facilitate the delivery of innovative healthcare applications (biomedical research, clinical care and public health) is looking for talented IT professionals to help grow our business.  We offer an outstanding benefits package that includes health, dental, vision and life insurance; employer match 401k plan, employer paid training and several employee incentive bonus programs. 

 

Currently, we have an exciting opportunity for a talented and highly skilled Bioinformatics Analyst.

 

Responsibilities: Consultation with NIH intramural scientists regarding bioinformatics analysis.  Hands on analysis of high throughput biological datasets.  Collaboration with software developers to develop custom bioinformatic software or modify commercial software.  Teaching of bioinformatics tools and concepts to postdoctoral fellows and scientists performing leading edge research.

 

Requirements:

 

A PhD biologist in molecular biology or related field experienced in bioinformatic analysis of high throughput biological datasets.  Successful applicants will have hands-on experience in analyzing all or most of the following biological datatypes: raw microarray data, genomic sequence data, SNP data, proteomics data, pathway data and genetic study data.  Experience of applying appropriate bioinformatic tools to other researchers? datasets and teaching biologists less experienced in the technologies how and when to use these tools is required.  Some statistical background is strongly preferred, ideally in R, Matlab, SAS or other related tools.  Tool development is a bonus but application of existing tools to the datasets is expected.

 

Additional Info:

 

Location and type of position:Full time government contractor on the NIH main campus, Bethesda Maryland.