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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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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