Postdoctoral Research Associate-Computational Biology

Location: Bryan, Texas, United States; work may extend beyond normal office hours and include weekends.

Company

Texas A&M University Health Science Center is an academic health center conducting transformative education, innovative research, and team-based health care delivery.

What you will do

• Conduct hypothesis-driven computational research using controls, quantitative models, and large-scale sequencing data.
• Implement, apply, evaluate, and maintain tools for processing, integrating, analyzing, and visualizing high-throughput sequencing datasets.
• Interpret and communicate research findings through group meetings, primary research articles, scientific conferences, and research discussions.
• Collaborate with TAMU laboratories and external collaborators to design experiments, analyze datasets, and develop innovative project approaches.
• Maintain and update software on the TAMU cluster, contribute to the codebase, and maintain personal code in a GitHub or equivalent version-controlled repository.
• Supervise undergraduate and/or graduate students and other laboratory, technical, or field staff involved in research.

Requirements

• Appropriate PhD.
• Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others.

Nice to have

• PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, or Computer Science.
• Training in statistics and programming experience in a UNIX/Linux environment using Python, R, and/or Perl.
• Experience analyzing genomic, transcriptomic, or epigenomic data, including RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and ChIP-seq.
• Experience working in a high-performance computing environment and developing data-management and data-processing pipelines.
• Proficiency in R, Python, and/or Matlab.
• Familiarity with software-development best practices, including unit testing and version control.
• Familiarity with inferential statistics and machine learning.
• Expertise in computational biology and the ability to devise innovative analytical approaches for high-volume genomic, epigenomic, and gene-expression data.
• Ability to work within a team of wet- and dry-lab researchers.

Culture & Benefits

• Grant-funded position; future employment may depend on future funding.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment, flexible spending account, and long-term disability insurance, with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums.
• 12–15 annual paid holidays, paid sick leave, and paid vacation.
• Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
• Free exercise programs, release time, LinkedIn Learning, professional-development support, educational release time, and tuition assistance.
• Employment is subject to a criminal history investigation and credential verification.