Bioinformatics Engineer, Biomedical Knowledge Base

Job description

Overview

At the heart of QIAGEN’s business is a vision to make improvements in life possible.

We are on an exciting mission to make a real difference in science and healthcare.

We are still the entrepreneurial company we started out as and have today achieved a size where we can bring our full power to many initiatives and to our presence across the globe.


Our most valuable asset are our employees – more than 6000 in over 35 locations around the world.

Our ambition is to ensure we have outstanding and passionate people working in the best teams and we are constantly looking for new talent to join us.


There are few players who have shaped the world of modern science and healthcare as much as QIAGEN, and we have only just started.
If you are looking to advance your career, are seeking new challenges and opportunities, enjoy working in dynamic and international, diverse teams and want to make a real impact on people’s lives, then QIAGEN is where you need to be.


 
Join us.

At QIAGEN, you make a difference every day.

Position Description

QIAGEN Digital Insights is a leading provider of bioinformatics software and knowledge bases used by life scientists to gain insight from the molecular information in their biological samples.

We have developed industry-leading software tools for analysis and reporting of biological data.

We are passionate about our users, products, and our vision, and are seeking smart, motivated engineers and scientists who are eager to join our team in creating software that helps improve people's lives.

Our mission is to make improvements in life possible.

We accomplish this by designing tools used in labs all over the world to facilitate scientific discovery and progress, focused on genomics.

As a Bioinformatics Engineer in the Content Development team, you will play a critical role in maintaining and extending QIAGEN’s biomedical knowledge base by integrating new knowledge from public data sources.

You will also contribute to data quality efforts by defining and implementing test plans, helping to ensure the accuracy and completeness of content delivered to our downstream application teams.

Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain bioinformatics software tools and pipelines to ingest, transform, and export vast amounts of biomedical data.

- Maintain and extend a complex biomedical ontology spanning the entire range of biological entities and processes relevant to life science R&D and clinical genomics.

- Collaborate with product management and application software developers to investigate new content sources and define requirements for content development projects.

- Contribute to data quality efforts by defining and implementing test plans, helping to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the biomedical knowledge base.

Position Requirements

- Undergraduate degree in computer science, molecular biology, bioengineering, or a related M.S. or Ph.D. degree preferred.

- 5+ years of industry experience in bioinformatics, including experience writing production-quality code for bioinformatics tools and pipelines.

- Strong software development fundamentals, with experience in multiple general-purpose programming languages, including Python, and comfort operating in a Linux environment.

Competence with software engineering best practices such as version control (git), code review, unit and integration testing, documentation, and collaborative development.

- Experience with multiple data modeling paradigms, including relational databases (SQL) and non-relational approaches such as graph databases (e.g., AWS Neptune, Neo4j).

- Hands-on experience with biomedical ontologies and related technologies such as RDF and OWL.

- Familiarity with common biological databases such as NCBI, UniProt, Ensembl.

Personal Requirements

- Location: Redwood City, California (will need to come onsite).

The estimated base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $150,000.

Compensation will be based on the candidate’s experience, skills, geographic location, and other job-related factors.

In addition to base salary, we offer a total compensation package that includes a bonus plan and generous benefits.

What we offer

At the heart of QIAGEN are our people who drive our success.

We act with passion, always challenging the status quo to drive innovation and continuous improvement.

We inspire with our leadership and make an impact with our actions.

We create a collaborative, safe and engaging workplace which forms the basis for high performing individuals and teams.

We drive accountability and entrepreneurial decision-making and want you to excel your growth and shape the future of QIAGEN.

QIAGEN is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including but not limited to assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations