Computational Biologist Academic Graduate Appointee

NOTE:  This is a one-year Academic Graduate Appointee with the possibility of extension to a maximum of two years.

We have an opening for an Academic Graduate Appointee to support the development and application of computational analytics reproducible data workflows and interactive dashboards for biosurveillance applications. You will contribute to multidisciplinary efforts supporting syndromic surveillance environmental metagenomics and related public health and biological threat preparedness this role you will assist with computational methods and reproducible bioinformatics workflows including the evaluation of approved artificial intelligence-enabled tools. You will work with diverse biological environmental clinical and surveillance datasets to support data quality assessment analysis visualization and timely scientific interpretation. You will use with guidance high-performance computing resources to execute scalable analyses and help develop robust maintainable computational capabilities. Under close supervision and in accordance with established procedures you will support analytical workflow development perform data analysis develop reporting tools and communicate technical results to team members and collaborators. This position is in the Advanced Biotechnologies Integration Group in the Biosciences and Biotechnology Division within the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate.

This position requires full-time on-site presence due to the nature of the work.

You will 

• Assist with development of computational analytics and interactive dashboards for biosurveillance syndromic surveillance and environmental metagenomics applications.
• Build test document and maintain reproducible bioinformatics and data processing workflows using workflow management frameworks.
• Analyze structured and unstructured biological environmental and surveillance data to identify trends assess data quality and support scientific decision making.
• Assist with processing characterization and visualization of metagenomic sequencing data including taxonomic functional and quality-control analyses.
• Apply high-performance computing resources to execute established bioinformatics statistical and machine learning workloads.
• Evaluate approved agentic tools with guidance to support code development data exploration documentation and analytical reporting consistent with project requirements and established computing practices.
• Assist with development of data-ingestion transformation and validation processes that support reliable downstream analysis and dashboard visualization.
• Create clear visualizations reports and dashboard interfaces that communicate analytical results to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Assist in developing testing and documenting computational workflows software tools and analysis pipelines.
• Present results to team members and collaborators.
• Contribute to technical reports presentations and as appropriate draft materials supporting publications.
• Work in a fast-paced interdisciplinary team supporting research in computational biology bioinformatics biosurveillance and biological threat preparedness.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications :

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship. 
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Bioinformatics Computational Biology Biology Computer Science Data Science Statistics Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with programming or scripting in Python R Bash and/or a comparable scientific-computing language.
• Experience or coursework involving analysis of biological genomic metagenomic epidemiological environmental or other complex scientific datasets.
• Familiarity with data visualization dashboard development or reporting tools.
• Familiarity with Linux-based computing environments and command-line tools.
• Ability to follow established computational workflows troubleshoot routine analysis issues with guidance and document methods and results.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively communicate technical information.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to work in a collaborative research environment and interact with a diverse set of team members.

Qualifications We Desire

• Experience with next-generation sequencing analysis metagenomics microbial genomics biosurveillance or syndromic surveillance data.
• Experience developing reproducible workflows using tools such as Nextflow Snakemake WDL or similar workflow management systems.
• Experience using high-performance computing systems including job schedulers such as Slurm and distributed or parallel computing environments.
• Experience with data dashboard and visualization technologies such as Plotly Dash Shiny Power BI or JavaScript-based visualization frameworks.
• Experience with software engineering practices including Git-based version control testing code review and technical documentation.
• Familiarity with relational databases APIs biomedical informatics data formats cloud-compatible data processing tools and data catalog or metadata management platforms such as DataHub.
• Familiarity with designing data-quality controls metadata standards and provenance-tracking approaches for scientific data workflows.

Pay Range

$6748 - $7718 Monthly 

Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. Many factors are taken into consideration when setting starting pay including education experience the external labor market and internal equity.

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Position Information

This is a one-year Academic Graduate Appointee open to those who have been awarded a degree at the time of the employment offer.

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