Bioinformatics Software Engineer for microbiome research

The successful applicant will develop bioinformatics software for analysis and integration of microbiome and other omics datasets for studying microbial communities involved in foods and human health. She or he will be experienced with Python programming for bioinformatics software development, collaborative development on GitHub, and comfortable coordinating with a collaborative team of interdisciplinary scientists and engineers to develop and apply open-source software in a diverse range of research topics.

We are looking for an experienced bioinformatics software engineer to engage in development of the microbiome bioinformatics platform QIIME 2 and related bioinformatics tools.

Key Qualifications

• Masters degree or bachelors degree plus equivalent experience in computer science, data science, electrical engineering, computational biology, or other relevant fields
• Proficient programming skills (Python) and software development/engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience developing open-source bioinformatics software
• Demonstrated experience with collaborative software development using Git and GitHub
• Experience developing and implementing GitHub Actions workflows
• Excellent interpersonal communication, teamwork and organizational skills
• English language proficiency (spoken, written) for communicating with colleagues and collaborators

Desired Qualifications

• Experience developing with QIIME 2
• Knowledge of biological data structures and formats
• Experience working with microbiome (marker gene, metagenome) or other omics data
• Experience with conda and conda-build ecosysem
• Experience with software containerization (Docker, Singularity)
• Experience working with high-performance computing environments