Princeton University Hiring for Senior Software Engineer at New Jersey, United States Full Time

US-NJ-Princeton

Job ID: 2022-15704
Type: Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Information Technology

Princeton University

Overview

Together, the Krienen and Peña Labs
(krienenlab.org; penalab.org) at the Princeton Neuroscience
Institute are looking for an outstanding Senior Software Engineer.
The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary group and
support a wide variety of projects conducting cutting-edge research
on the molecular, cellular, and neurobiological mechanisms of brain
evolution, development, and disorders.

This position will work in close
collaboration with scientists on a variety of projects in the lab
and within collaborative consortia. The Senior Software Engineer
will be actively engaged with multiple projects, and will need to
have exceptionally strong engineering and organizational skills as
well as the ability to prioritize tasks appropriately.

Responsibilities

• Write, manage and optimize computational workflows that enable
  major analysis activities – from read alignment to cell calling to
  cell clustering to downstream statistical analyses
• Develop, refine, optimize and apply analysis methods and
  software to a variety of datasets, including single-cell RNA-seq,
  ATAC-seq, and multiome data
• Expand the capacity of software pipelines to process expanding
  datasets
• Produce open-source methods that can be utilized by other
  researchers; carefully document and annotate source code for
  utilization by the scientific community
• Develop software allowing the project team, and the broader
  scientific community, to access, analyze and interact with data
  generated by projects
• Develop data-visualization software capabilities for the
  research team, and visualizations of data for a variety of
  stakeholders
• Work with scientists, data managers and other software
  engineers toward the creation of optimal analysis workflows for
  high-data-volume experiments. Participate in project-planning and
  project-analysis meetings as well as software-planning meetings,
  communicating the needs and tradeoffs.

Qualifications

Essential

• Master’s or professional degree with 5+ years experience
  (related work experience such as an advanced degree in computer
  science, mathematics, bioinformatics or a related field may count
  but not fully replace this requirement)

Expertise in Java and/or R
required
Experience working with cluster
computing (GridEngine, SLURM, LSF)

• Ability to create visual representations of data and refine
  these with team feedback
• Knowledge of basic statistics and machine learning
  concepts
• Demonstrated ability to interact with a diverse and
  interdisciplinary group of both professional staff and academic
  trainees, including project managers, data analysts, computational
  scientists, and laboratory scientists
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks
  thoughtfully
• Experience working on multiple complex projects
  simultaneously
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced rapidly changing
  environment

Preferred

• Experience processing next-gen sequencing data, preferably
  single-cell RNA-seq data
• Working knowledge of Python, Scala, or Shiny strongly
  preferred
• Familiarity with cloud computing infrastructure, workflows, and
  data storage (Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web
  Services)

Familiarity with dynamic UI
frameworks

This position is subject to the
University’s background check policy.
Princeton University is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, national origin, disability status,
protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by
law. EEO IS THE LAW

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