Location:  San Diego, CA

Position Description: Empirico, an early-stage biotechnology company, is looking for a talented bioinformatics engineer with data science skills who is interested in analyzing large scale human genetics data for the purpose of therapeutic target discovery.

Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will primarily consist of performing analyses and building robust computational pipelines and tools critical to Empirico’s drug discovery efforts. You will be expected to:

• Collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team consisting of human geneticists, bioinformatics scientists and software engineers, using your computational skills to gain insights from massive genetic datasets
• Design, develop and deploy robust data analysis pipelines and software tools to support target discovery
• Help implement cutting-edge bioinformatics methods and algorithms (such as those described in the literature) to advance Empirico’s discovery initiatives
• Integrate and analyze large, complex data sets to extract information useful to our target discovery platforms
• Perform focused genetic analyses to gain insights into novel target biology and clearly communicate these analyses to Empirico colleagues
• Perform analyses to address platform/application QC