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Scientific Programmer

Description:
Working in a dynamic and growing environment, this position will support ParAllele’s research and development efforts through the development of scientific applications and short-term research projects.

Duties will include the following:

• Work with other members of ParAllele’s computational biology group to augment our assay design process through the integration of genomic and experimental data.
• Mine external genomic databases to answer research problems and to develop ParAllele’s standard and custom product designs.
• Communicate effectively with scientists to gather requirements and solicit feedback on software and reports.
• Perform custom development and reports as required to support customers.

Requirements:

• BS degree in CS, EE, BioEngineering, or other similar life science/technical field.
• Two (2) to three (3) years experience in software development preferably in the field of life sciences.
• Experience with Java (currently using J2SE 1.4.0) and other programming, scripting and web development languages such as COM, Perl, Python, etc.
• Experience writing SQL queries especially against MS SQL Server 2000 and Oracle databases.
• Knowledge of public genomic databases (Ensembl, NCBI, UCSC, etc) and tools (BLAST, Primer3, etc) highly desirable.
• Experience with visualization tools, math and statistics applications (Matlab, S-plus/R, Spotfire, etc) desired.
• Other desired skills include experience with Java Servlets, Swing or AWT, JSP, code versioning systems (CVS) and the Unified Modeling Language.