Bioinformatics/Phylogenetics Specialist
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Bioinformatics/Phylogenetics Specialist advancing HIV transmission-cluster analytics for Abt Global’s digital-services subsidiary. Validating methods, pipelines, sequence data, and scientific outputs for public health surveillance.
Responsibilities:
- Provide scientific expertise in HIV sequence analysis, pairwise genetic distance methods, phylogenetics, phylodynamics, cluster detection logic, sequence data quality, analytic validation, and scientific testing
- Review, assess, and approve proposed changes to analytic methods, cluster detection logic, and bioinformatics workflows
- Validate analytic outputs, algorithms, and software enhancements through scientific testing, benchmarking, and quality assurance
- Develop and oversee strategies for synthetic, test, and validation datasets
- Evaluate sequence data quality and analytic performance, identify issues, and recommend corrective actions
- Advise on modernization, optimization, and scalability of bioinformatics pipelines and computational workflows
- Support adoption of emerging methods, technologies, and best practices
Requirements:
- Master’s degree plus 3 years of relevant experience, or a PhD
- Degree in bioinformatics, epidemiology, public health, or a related field required
- Experience using computational tools to identify potential HIV transmission clusters from genetic sequence data
- Experience developing, validating, and maintaining bioinformatics pipelines for HIV or other infectious-disease sequence data
- Experience in research, surveillance, or public health environments
- Knowledge of phylogenetic and phylodynamic methods
- Ability to interpret transmission-cluster analyses, molecular epidemiology findings, and genetic distance-based approaches
- Experience collaborating with epidemiologists, software developers, data scientists, and public health stakeholders
- Ability to translate scientific requirements into analytic solutions and system enhancements
Benefits:
- Market-competitive salary
- Comprehensive employee benefits
- Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment
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