Scientist III, Bioinformatics

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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Discover Impactful Work

The candidate will be part of the Bioinformatics R&D team in Clinical Next Generation Sequencing Division and will be responsible for primer design for the development of targeted sequencing panels, pipelines and algorithms for next-generation DNA sequencing. The role will focus on designing panels for plants and animals for agricultural applications.

As the leading supplier of life science technology and related applications, we are helping life scientists understand and use the power of genomics to pursue new scientific discoveries and advance clinical research in personalized medicine.

A day in the Life

Design assays for custom targeted sequencing panels for external researchers.

Understand the core scientific questions and design assays to address these questions.

Work closely with external customers to understand their requests and provide the best design solution that meets their needs.

Develop, maintain, and operate bioinformatics pipelines for assay design, data mining and analysis.

Improve the designs by iterative analysis of the sequencing data obtained. Develop heuristic rules, optimization, and algorithms to improve the design pipeline.

Identify and implement new technologies and methods for optimizing and automating the pipeline for primer design, data analysis, storage, and sharing.

Keys to Success

Education

PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics, Genomics or biological sciences with 1 year of relveant working experience

MS with 3+ years of relevant working experience

Experience

Proficiency in Python and shell scripting. Experience with REST APIs, AWS (S3, containerization, Kubernetes).

Hands-on experience with bioinformatics production systems.

Experience with sequence analysis tools (e.g., BLAST, MAFFT / Clustal, Bowtie / BWA, samtools / bedtools) and strong understanding of genomic databases / annotations (e.g., GenBank / RefSeq, ENSEMBL, UCSC).

Understanding of NGS data and common analyses (genotyping, gene expression, comparative genomics, genetic mapping); appreciation of statistical methods and mathematical models for interpreting biological data.

Plant‑genome familiarity : experience addressing challenges typical of plant genomes (e.g., polyploidy and repeats) and designing assays across cultivars / varieties; familiarity with genome resources such as Ensembl Plants / RefSeq.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Strong communication and organizational skills; self‑motivated and collaborative with excellent problem‑solving and troubleshooting abilities

Committed to delivering high‑quality results on time with integrity and professionalism.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Texas is $101,725.00–$131,000.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and / or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes :

A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit :

https : / / jobs.thermofisher.com / global / en / total-rewards

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