Bioinformatics Software Engineer- Pharmacological Sciences

The Bioinformatics Software Engineer will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of computational scientists on developing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining web-based software applications used by the larger biomedical and biological scientific communities for the analysis, integration, and visualization of large-scale biological omics, imaging, and clinical datasets.

• Work independently to identify and define technical requirements for tasks and timelines
• Design, build, test, and deploy scalable bioinformatics web-based applications in a cloud environment
• Develop, document, and maintain version-controlled code
• Mock, develop, and enhance interactive UI designs
• Build Docker containers for various bioinformatics workflows
• Maintain and enhance efficient solutions to reproducible workflow orchestrations on the cloud and local HPC
• Author and manage technical documentation that concisely describes design and implementation details
• Manage, publish, and maintain code repository (e.g. GitHub), container repository (e.g. DockerHub)
• Respond to new feature requests, assist with issues raised by user base as needed
• Report project status regularly to the Principal Investigator
• Performs other related duties.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or Biomedical Science.
• 1-2 years of minimum experience; or experience demonstrated through prior research projects or coursework.
• Knowledge of open-source bioinformatics tools and workflows
• Working with high performance clusters and cloud technologies
• Developing web-based applications with front ends utilizing frameworks such as React, NodeJS, RShiny, Flask, or Dash
• Building and orchestrating containers (Docker) using technologies like Kubernetes
• Extensive experience with Git or other version control systems

 

 

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The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more t