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Veracyte | http://www.veracyte.com | San Francisco | Bioinformatics Engineers (full time, no remote, no intern)

Veracyte is pioneering molecular cytology; we are dedicated to helping people avoid unnecessary invasive procedures just to get a diagnosis and to reducing healthcare costs at the same time. We use rigorous science to unlock genomic answers from tiny numbers of cells obtained through minimally invasive methods before surgery is needed.

We are seeking exceptionally talented Bioinformatics Engineers to join our R&D team and build cutting edge tools for analysis of high-dimensional experimental data, and data management systems to store and serve high-dimensional experimental data with near-term emphasis on high-volume next-generation sequencing (NGS) data in the cloud.

Roles and requirements: (see links for application process)

Bioinformatics Engineer (DevOps) - http://bit.ly/1AX8tHQ

- Technical proficiency and experience with: Java, Python, JavaScript, shell and SQL.

- Demonstrated expertise in working within AWS-based cloud computing (EC2) and storage (EBS/S3) services.

- Experience in Linux-based high-performance computing environments.

- Experience with automated provisioning systems including Fabric, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.

- Adherence to modern software engineering practices including agile development methodologies, maintaining code under version control, code reviews, etc.

Bioinformatics Engineer (DataOps) - http://bit.ly/1vk9uJk

- Demonstrated expertise in working within AWS-based cloud computing (EC2) and storage (EBS/S3) services.

- Ability to extract, merge, clean and verify data from a wide variety of sources (databases, text files, external sources, etc).

- Technical proficiency and experience with: Java, Python, JavaScript, shell and SQL.

- Ability to design and implement data stores in which to efficiently store and retrieve high volume data (PostgreSQL and NoSQL/CouchDB experience preferred).

- Experience in Linux-based high-performance computing environments.

- Adherence to modern software engineering practices including agile development methodologies, maintaining code under version control, code reviews, etc.

Also hiring: Principal Systems Architect - http://bit.ly/1COlqAx




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