Senior Scientist - Oligo Bioinformatics

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono.

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you've got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

Your Role

• Develop pipelines that determine mapping coordinates and homology of oligonucleotides to genomes and transcriptomes
• Design and build pipelines that process and analyze related data, store summary results and integrate with the corporate ELN
• Develop pipelines that determine mapping coordinates and homology of oligonucleotides to genomes and transcriptomes
• Develop, deploy, manage, and run applications using Docker containers
• Discovery and development of oligonucleotide therapeutics is a plus
  
  

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD in Chemistry, science or engineering with at least 3 years or more of direct experience in siRNA/ASO/SSO is plus
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with common human genetics resources and techniques
• Deployment and deployment of interactive applications from scripting languages like R and Python (Shiny and streamlit)
• Experience with relational databases; hands on experience with MySQL is a plus.
• Experience in common NGS analyses task such mapping reads, quantification of gene expression, and/or variant calling.
• Experience with common bioinformatics tools like Samtools, GATK, Bowtie, HISAT2, BLAST, htseq-count, DESeq, Salmon, STAR, or Subread
• Knowledge of Illumina sequencing data analysis is necessary and experience with PacBio and/or Nanopore sequencing is a plus
• Familiarity with UNIX computing environment and proficiency in either Python or R scripting. Experience with docker and Nextflow pipeline is also strongly recommended.
• Ability to communicate finding of NGS data to a general scientific audience in both oral and written forms.
  
  

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!