Job description
This position is with the Wisconsin State Laboratory Communicable Disease Division and will support the development, implementation, and maintenance of bioinformatics workflows crucial to public health disease surveillance.
Contributes to a research agenda set by a lead researcher by preparing data sets, analyzing them using data science techniques, and presenting the results. Works as part of a team under general supervision.
- 20% Prepares data sets for analysis including cleaning/quality assurance, transformations, restructuring, and integration of multiple data sources
- 20% Implements appropriate data science techniques under the guidance of other data scientists, statisticians, and/or other researchers to find data patterns and answer research questions chosen by the lead researcher including data visualization, statistical analysis, machine learning, and data mining
- 20% Organizes and automates project steps for data preparation and analysis
- 20% Composes and assembles reproducible workflows and reports to clearly articulate patterns to researchers and/or administrators
- 20% Documents approaches to address research questions
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Preferred
Master's Degree
- 1 - 2 years of experience working in a public health setting
- Experience in next generation sequencing (NGS) methods and bioinformatics analyses as applied to infectious diseases
- Knowledge of bioinformatics pipeline design and implementation.
- Proficiency with version control using Git
- Experience working with Python, BASH, and 1 other programming language.
- Knowledge of public health and clinical laboratory regulatory practices (College of American Pathologists / Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments)
- Experience working with workflow languages like Nextflow or WDL.
- Proficiency working with tools and environments such as Docker and AWS
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Full Time: 100%
This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.
Terminal, 24 month appointment.
This position has the possibility to be extended or converted to an ongoing appointment based on need and/or funding
Minimum $75,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
If you have questions, you may email [email protected] or call Kelsey Bailey, 608-262-5594.
Kelsey Bailey
[email protected]
608-262-5594
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1 (out-of-state: TTY: 800.947.3529, STS: 800.833.7637) and above Phone number
Data Scientist I(RE020)
A527000-WI STATE LAB OF HYGIENE/CDD/MICROBIOLOGY
Academic Staff-Terminal
255339-AS
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