Bioinformatics Scientist

You

Data drives you to achieve, mission drives you to excel, and the microbiome is either something you’re deeply passionate about already or passionate about diving in and learning more. In your current role, you are immersed in analytical work in statistics and work eloquently with large data sets. You are capable of designing and executing both detailed and open-ended analysis plans in a fast-paced environment, such as a startup undergoing hyper-growth. Teachers and mentors would describe you as a driven, focused, and analytical mind who grasps concepts quickly, engages with your subject, and, above all else, consistently delivers impeccable work using large data sets (such as multi-omics!). You conduct the type of work that drives forward innovation and you effectively collaborate with a highly intellectual, diverse team containing individuals spanning from basic science experience to clinical trial execution.

You value time above all else, and if it was unlimited, you would spend most of it acquiring more knowledge or “nerding out.” Importantly, you respect deadlines, starting on time and finishing on time. In conversation, you’re quick on your feet, employ an impressive vocabulary, and rarely fumble for words. You hold yourself and colleagues accountable to deliverables, work fast, and loathe stagnancy and procrastination. You have a proven track record in an R&D or clinical analysis team to use cutting-edge bioinformatic techniques to interrogate data-driven, clinical analyses of various microbiological (e.g. DNA sequencing output) and clinical (e.g. human health) data.

As Seed’s early-phase discovery pipelines span all facets of human and planetary health, you’ll dive deep into identifying the application of microbes on host health and either already exhibit – or are well on your way to gaining – a mastery of many disciplines within microbiology. Overall, you will help Seed remain a data-driven culture which reflects the intentionality of our brand and the human-centric ethos of our company.

You can rapidly internalize and become proficient in using our current R&D infrastructure to run bioinformatics analysis and discovery, both internally and using cloud resources. You obsess over data, insights, new trends, technologies and the kind of gut instincts that come from experience and deep knowledge of our brand. You are discerning about your analytical experiments and how to roll out implementations. 

Projects under your scope will proceed quickly across many different dimensions – you are comfortable independently organizing, logging, and communicating your thoughts and processes. You utilize a willingness and ability to speak up, think critically, and explain the complexity of bioinformatics to people at all levels of mastery.

What You’ll Do

• Deploy and use bioinformatic processing pipelines for the integration and analysis of human clinical and microbiome (metagenomic) data, including short read sequencing data
• Use bioinformatic tools for precision pre/probiotic design and microbial comparative genomics
• Analyze clinical trial data for the development of new microbial therapies
• Use statistical best practices for each analysis, including methods optimized for cross-sectional and time series experiments
• Be involved in contributing to clinical trial analysis documentation and/or academic papers
• Communicate bioinformatic analysis results with academic and industry partners around the globe

Background (Required) 

• PhD / MA + 2 years industry experience or BA + 4 yrs industry experience in informatics, or machine-learning or biostatistics or related discipline
• Experience in analysis of multi-omics datasets and associated multivariate statistics 
• Knowledge of bioinformatics workflows in a Unix/Linux environment
• Ability to work in dynamic and fast-paced environments with tight deadlines
  

Desired 

• Experience working with microbiome 16S and shotgun short-read datasets
• Experience with microbiome pipelines such as QIIME, Mothur, Biobakery, SHOGUN, etc
• Experience with machine learning, nested clinical trial design, responder/non-responder analysis, etc

The annual pay range for this full-time position is $110k-$180k + equity + benefits across all US locations (this position is 100% remote-US). Our pay ranges are guided by discipline, level and experience required. Within the range, individual pay may vary based on additional factors, including: your specific location, desired skills/ technical competency, relevant experience and advanced education/ training.

Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, LTD, Mental Wellness, EAP, Wellness Stipend + 401(k) match.