Bioinformatics Software Engineer III

Pay Range

$118,800.00-$196,200.00

Company Overview

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe. 

 

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Job Description

Bioinformatics Software Engineer III

 

Exciting Opportunity at MSK

We are seeking a Bioinformatics Software Engineer III to join our team. As part of the pathology software engineering group, you will work with a passionate team using technology to solve real-world and life-impacting challenges. You will develop bioinformatics and biomedical informatics solutions that will help diagnose a tumor specimen and suggest treatment paths for cancer. As a mid/senior level bioinformatics software engineer you will work with our informatics teams to help us continue pioneering next-generation clinical software systems, spawning from managing petabyte-scale biological datasets, high-performance computing-enabled bioinformatics pipelines, and other cutting-edge systems to help visualize and report genomic results that guide treatment decisions and enrollment of patients onto the clinical trials.

 

Role Overview:

• Work and collaborate with a top-notch team of software engineers, bioinformatics scientists, biomedical informaticians, system engineers, and physicians to support clinical-grade diagnostics infrastructure.
• Design, implement, test, and deploy cutting-edge scalable multi-tiered full-stack software systems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including user guides, operational run books, and standard operating procedures.
• Develop DevOps framework and implement standards, processes, and controls for release and deployment activities.
• Develop biomedical informatics solutions, including software to integrate with medical and clinical informatics systems (EPIC health care systems, etc), API services, infrastructure to generate diagnostic reports for > 75 diagnostic tests, data dashboards, and cutting-edge web portals.

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, biomedical informatics, or a closely related discipline with 6 years of hands-on software engineering experience, preferably developing scientific software.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages like Python, Java, Ruby, C/C++
• 5+ years of experience building high-throughput and scalable RESTful APIs using Python frameworks (such as Flask, FastAPI, etc.)
• 3+ years of experience with database technologies such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB
• experience with agile software development practices, and experience using tools such as JIRA.
• experience integrating software applications with EPIC health care systems is desired but not required.
• experience with data pipelines

Core Skills:

• A team player, and passionate about learning new technology/methodology.
• Desire to understand the clinical domain and build and deliver customer-centric products.
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and eager to solve complex problems.
• An effective communicator and possess team and customer-focused competency.
• Resilient in recovering from setbacks and skilled at finding detours around problems.

Additional Information:

• Location: 1275 York Avenue, NYC
• Reporting to The Director, Software Engineering • Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Schedule: Hybrid, Three days onsite

Pay Range: 118,800 - $196,200

 

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