Bioinformatics Statistician - New Product Development Job - (Oakland, CA)

Growing biotechnology company seeks background developing genomic analysis algorithms and bioinformatics tools to lead new diagnostic product development leveraging next generation sequencing platforms and analyze large RNA & DNA data sets. Qualifications: *** Must be able to analyze and apply data from sequencers such as Roche 454, Illumina Genome Analyzer system, Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM), PacBio Sequel system, or similar. *** Background designing, evaluating, revising, and implementing computational techniques to analyze NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) data and identify nucleotide variants. *** Background using the Sequence Alignment-Map format to store, sort, merge, and index large nucleotide sequences. *** Ability to use the Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) package or similar software to map low-divergent sequences against large reference genomes. *** Prior experience building analysis tools for high-throughput DNA sequencers using the GATK (Genome Analysis Tool Kit).