Scientist I Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

The mission of the Allen Institute is to unlock the complexities of bioscience and advance our knowledge to improve human health. Using an open science, multi-scale, team-oriented approach, the Allen Institute focuses on accelerating foundational research, developing standards and models, and cultivating new ideas to make a broad, transformational impact on science. Join the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (SeaHub), a new initiative at the intersection of academic creativity and start-up style execution. Our mission is to reimagine living cells and genomes as devices for recording biology and diagnostic information over time, as well as for encoding real-time therapeutic decision-making. Take off with us as we imagine and create a kind of cellular flight recorder that can also seize the controls. Be part of a small dynamic team on the ground floor of a new program with world-class scientists. SeaHub is looking for a Scientist I, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics for the Read team. The computational biologist should have a very strong background in each of two areas: 1) next-generation genomic technology development methodology and 2) writing ad hoc and bespoke bioinformatics scripts in Python and R to do detailed bioinformatics analyses of next-generation sequencing data. The role will include leading the effort to process and analyze large amounts of diverse sets of sequencing data (both short-read and long-read) to draw conclusions from wet lab experiments, in close collaboration with teams focused on expanding our abilities to engineer cells and genomes to autonomously Write, Sense, and Act at a molecular level. The successful candidate will play a key role in advancing our ability to record lineage and signaling information in the genomes of mammalian cells. This position requires a collaborative mindset, timeline-management abilities, and the ability to work cross-functionally with other research teams to drive project success.