contact us      search
Home|Products|Technology|Applications|Customer Support|Helicos Community|Corporate
Corporate
News & Events                                                                                                  
Events & Tradeshows                                                                                                  
Press Releases                                                                                                  
Financial Events                                                                                                  
Investors                                                                                                  
Management Team                                                                                                  
Board of Directors                                                                                                  
Scientific Advisory Board                                                                                                  
Careers                                                                                                  
Contact Us                                                                                                  
Home  Corporate  Careers

Careers at Helicos

print page   |   email page

At Helicos BioSciences, we offer our employees the opportunity to be their creative best in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. We are looking for people who thrive in a challenging, fast-paced environment—people who are team oriented, accomplished, and committed to contributing to the success of our mission.

We are always interested in exceptional professionals whose backgrounds include engineering, physics, molecular biology and chemistry, as well as individuals with proven business skills. If you are interested in working with us and believe you may be qualified, please forward your CV or resumé for consideration.

We currently have openings in the following areas:
 Next

BioInformatician/Computation Biologist

Reports to:
Director of Scientific Informatics

Position Overview:
The Scientific Informatics group develops bioinformatics software to support instrument and scientific application development. This software will seed Helicos’ Open Source Project and is used by internal developers to monitor and adjust instrument and application parameters. The group consists of a mixture of biologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians, and this multidisciplinary environment reflects the larger Helicos culture. Teamwork, responsibility, and the desire to create high quality scientific inference solutions are critical for success in the group. This is a technical position and the candidate will be expected to write applications and develop tools for analysis of DNA sequencing based applications.

Primary Responsibilities:
•Responsible for application support with an emphasis on data exploration, experimental planning, and experiment trouble shooting in collaboration with biologists, engineers, and other bioinformatics experts.
•Play a major role in the day-to-day analysis and interpretation of extremely large and complex data sets and develop tools which allow others to analyze these data sets.

Qualifications
•Experience validating algorithm performance via simulations within the genomic or biological problem space considered a strong plus.
•Strong biology background or extended work experience in collaboration with biologists considered a strong plus.
•The ideal candidate would have some familiarity with the genomic structure, genome/genome comparisons, population genomics and modern biology.
•Exercise independent judgment within broadly defined fields to develop methods, techniques, and tools to obtain results. The candidate is expected to have expert knowledge of scientific principles and concepts.
•Experience working with population genetics, genome structure, and/or medical genomics
•Experience with genomic data analysis and annotation
•Working knowledge of statistical methods for assessing sequencing methods – preferably methods employed at a genome center for assess sample preparation biases and purity
•Experience assessing resulting alignment quality
•Visualization and web site development experience within bioinformatics
•Experience working with Linux clusters
•BS/MS in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Genetics; 5+ years
•Perl and C++ experience
•The ability and desire to specify the overall function of the system based on prior knowledge of genomic complexity

 Next

If you don’t see an opening that matches your expertise, feel free to check back again, or to send your resumé or CV for future consideration.

Our employees are treated with dignity and respect. Helicos is an equal opportunity employer.
Questions?
For information regarding the HeliScope™ Sequencer, or any of our products, call 877-2-HELICOS or send us a note.

Resumes

Send resume to:

hr@helicosbio.com


© 2008 Helicos BioSciences Corporation  •  One Kendall Square, Building 700 Cambridge, MA 02139  •  877-2-HELICOS      contact us   |   terms of use   |   privacy policy