Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is hiring a Principal Computational Biologist for The Shah Lab and Department of Pediatrics. In this role, you will work directly with genomic data from patients under active treatment, contribute to analyses that help characterize each child's disease in near real time, and develop new computational approaches to interrogate cancer genomes.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with physician-scientists to analyze sequencing data from pediatric cancer patients to better understand disease progression and treatment options.
- Engage deeply with bulk and single-cell sequencing datasets to explore novel, clinically relevant questions.
- Develop computational methods to analyze data generated by groundbreaking single-cell and long-read technologies.
- Contribute to high impact journal articles and gain recognition through authorship.
- Submit abstracts and travel to conferences to present your work.
- Research new developments in computational biology and apply these methods to new data sets.
What We're Looking For
- PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or Computer Science with emphasis on applications in molecular biology.
- Adept with data analysis using the latest packages in Python or R.
- Experience with Linux and the command line.
- Familiarity with git and working collaboratively on a codebase.
- Experience working with high throughput sequence data.
- Experience with single cell genomics.
Technical Stack
- Python
- R
- Linux
- git
Team & Environment
You will join an interdisciplinary team of computational scientists, molecular biologists, and clinicians and report to an Associate Attending.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $149,200.00 - $246,300.00
- Annual bonus incentive
- Annual merit increase
- Opportunities to attend and present at leading conferences
Work Mode
This role is hybrid and based at the 323 E. 61St (Macklowe) location in NYC.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran status or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision.
