Bioinformatics Scientist

About the Opportunity

We are an innovative global healthcare company that helps the world stay ahead of infectious diseases by delivering more than 500 million vaccine doses a year. Across different countries, our talented teams are exploring new technologies to protect people and promote healthy communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.​

SUMMARY

This role fills a global and critical vaccine research and development role for the Global Antigen Design/ Research and Development / Sanofi Vaccines global. The role is responsible for processing sequence and metadata from multiple databases to track pathogen evolution and facilitate vaccine strain selection. The role requires a MS in bioinformatics or related fields with significant experience in sequence analyses, database creation/management, and developing user friendly interfaces and pipelines. The role requires excellence in both technical expertise and communication.

In this role you will

• Download and curate periodically sequence and metadata from pathogen databases

• Create and manage internal sequence databases 

• Extract and generate metadata for machine learning

• Develop pipelines and web-based interfaces for data processing

• Communicate with stakeholders to summarize data

About You

• MS in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or closely-related discipline.

• Experience in sequence (amino acids and nucleotides) analysis is required.

• Experience in meta-data analyses is required.

• Experience in data cleaning is required.

• Experience in working with AWS or other cloud based computing is required.

• Experience in database creation and management is required.

• Experience in interfacing with Genbank, GISAID, and similar databases is required.

• Experience in variant tracking (e.g. influenza or SARS-CoV-2) is highly desired.

• Experience in Python or other scripting languages is required.

• Experience in web-based interface is highly desired

• Experience in phylogeny or phylodynamics analyses is highly desired.

• Highly flexible and adaptable individual able to thrive in a fast pace and ambiguous environment.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving as well as communication, scientific writing and presentation skills. Ability to put together a convincing business case.

• Excellent communication skills.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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