Job Description

Bioinformatics Engineer I Full Time
Elucidata Data Consulting Private Limited


Job Code: EDCPL-17890
Job Locations: India
Required Experience: 0 - 3 Years
Posted:
a month ago
Skills: python, r, pipeline development, bash, Docker Container












Your Role:
Elucidata is seeking a software developer for the role of Bioinformatics Engineer in the Product team at Elucidata. In this role, you will get the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams, apply your data analysis skills to solve complex biological problems, improve the understanding of biological systems and diseases and accelerate drug discovery using machine learning and AI.
Key Responsibilities:

• Write production-ready code for bioinformatics algorithms, pipelines, visualisations and data reporting.
• Processing public omics datasets through customised pipelines and implementing ML algorithms to structured data.
• Work with internal and external scientists to productize their work, build reusable packages
• Innovate and implement new tools and pipelines, improve existing pipelines and algorithms for different types of biological data analysis and visualisation.
• Identify valuable data sources and automate data ingestion.
• Effectively communicate processing and analyses.

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters (upto 2 years of relevant experience) in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related technical discipline.
• Relevant experience in pipeline development, omics data analysis, machine learning, or related fields is preferred.
• Proficient in a programming language used for data processing, analysis and visualisation such as Python and R.
• Ability to learn and work collaboratively on github.
• Experience in implementing bioinformatics pipelines and data structures/objects
• Hands-on experience applying computational algorithms and statistical methods to structured and unstructured big data.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals
• Think independently and also contribute to an active intellectual environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Company Introduction






Polly delivers ML-ready biomedical molecular data for accelerated drug discovery. Hosting a rich repository of more than 230,000 multi-omic datasets, Polly curates data semi-automatically, with over 50,000 datasets added each month.
We equip data-driven drug discovery teams with a code-first SaaS platform that integrates proprietary and public biomedical molecular data for ML applications. Inspired by the FAIR guidelines described by the NIH, Polly\'s Data Lakes allow exclusive access to curated multi-omics data that is ready for ML workflows.
Polly offers 10x faster identification of therapeutic assets with high odds of success in the clinic. It has enabled the detection of multiple validated drug targets across immunology, oncology, and metabolic disorders. Polly supports discovery programs at Pfizer, Agios Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, and Yale and has 35+ research partners from premier biopharma companies and research labs.