Join the forefront of groundbreaking research at City Hope where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. Our dedicated and compassionate faculty and staff are driven by a common mission: Contribute to innovative approaches in predicting, preventing, and curing diseases, shaping the future of medicine through cutting-edge research. A Staff Scientist position is available for a highly talented bioinformatics engineer to join our computational microbiome team. The successful candidate will contribute to the development and implementation of bioinformatics pipelines. This is an exceptional opportunity for a bioinformatics engineer who is willing to apply his/her expertise to the intersection of human microbiome, immuno-therapy and cancer research. Individuals appointed as staff scientists will receive a one-year fixed-term contract. As a successful candidate, you will: * Develop and implement bioinformatics pipelines, * Integrate pipelines into snakemake workflow. * Keep pipelines current. * Test pipelines in large scale. * Provide summary report and documentation of pipelines and results. Your qualifications should include: * PhD or MSc. in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related field. * Knowledgeable of Bioinformatics techniques, next generation sequencing data and pipelines. * Ability to implement, develop and modify Bioinformatics pipelines. * Fluent in scientific scripting languages such as R or Python and bash environment. * Fluent in snakemake. * Strong communication skills. Preferred qualifications: * Experience with microbiome bioinformatics pipelines. * Experience with whole genome sequencing (WGS), whole exome sequencing (WES), RNA sequencing (RNAseq) analysis, and calling of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and insertions/deletions (indels). * Understanding concepts of molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, immunology. * Understanding statistical analysis techniques for microbiome (alpha-diversity, beta-diversity, dimensionality reduction, clustering, regression models). City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location. City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.