Location:
Medical Center Office Building (901 7th Ave)Department:
Pediatric Precision Health ProgramShift:
First Shift (United States of America)Standard Weekly Hours:
40Summary:
The Bioinformatician will support the Cook Children’s precision health and precision medicine research ecosystem by developing and maintaining analytical pipelines for genomic data, performing variant annotation and interpretation, building tools for clinical decision support, and advancing data integration across genomics, clinical phenotypes, and functional datasets. This role supports precision clinics, genome-informed care, research, and AI-enabled clinical workflows. This position will collaborate closely with Cook Children’s variant scientists, genetic counselors, clinicians, data scientists, and computational teams.
Experience
2 years experience in genomic data processing, variant annotation, or large-scale data analysis
Demonstrated proficiency in R and/or Python, SQL, Linux/Unix environments, and common bioinformatics workflows
Education
Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genetics, Data Science, Computer Science, or related field
About Us:
Cook Children's Health Care System
Cook Children's Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the country's leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Children's to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents.
Cook Children’s is an equal opportunity employer. As such, Cook Children’s offers equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected class in accordance with applicable federal laws. These opportunities include terms, conditions and privileges of employment, including but not limited to hiring, job placement, training, compensation, discipline, advancement and termination.
Skills Required
- 2 years experience in genomic data processing, variant annotation, or large-scale data analysis
- Proficiency in R and/or Python, SQL, Linux/Unix environments, and common bioinformatics workflows
- Master's degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genetics, Data Science, Computer Science, or related field
What We Do
Cook Children's Health Care System embraces an inspiring Promise – to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, we’re proud of our long and rich tradition of serving our community.
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