About Ancestry:

When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. We believe that by discovering the struggles and triumphs of our past, we can foster deeper bonds and more meaningful connections among families and communities. Our talented team of scientists, engineers, genealogists, historians, and storytellers is dedicated to empowering customers around the world from all backgrounds on their journeys of personal discovery. 

With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 100+ million family trees, and 20+ million people in our growing AncestryDNA database, Ancestry helps customers discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? You belong at Ancestry.

AncestryDNA is looking for a Population Geneticist, with experience in genomic analysis to study population structure in a genetic dataset of over 20 million customers with ancestry from hundreds of populations from around the world. You will collaborate research and apply novel genetic pattern recognition approaches to different global populations, to improve our knowledge of the human genetic diversity landscape and build the best genetic origins experience for all. You will report to the Senior Manager, Population Genetics.

What You Will Do:

• Work with other scientists to identify and catalog global genetic diversity and prioritize populations that will best improve the diversity and representativeness of our genetic offering.
• Work with our collaborators, marketing, and legal partners to develop domestic and international research study protocols and monitor project performance.
• Provide population genetics expertise in the development of genetic partnerships across the globe.
• Represent us in dynamic conversations with diverse global research institutions.
• Perform creative research with the goal of delivering exciting discoveries to customers, including analyzing human genomic data for use in our research projects.

Who You Are:

• M.S. with 3+ years of experience or Ph.D. in Population Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Computational Biology, Statistical Genetics, or a related field
• You have demonstrated experience applying population genetics tools and analyses to infer population structure and demographic history
• Experience analyzing NGS data is required and experience with microarray data
• Experience with diverse human populations and knowledge of human population history.
• Experience with imputation and NGS data processing.
• Experience with python and R
• Experience designing and executing prospective human sampling studies.
• Experience with MySQL or other relational databases
• Excited to learn and develop with us as we progress towards building a more inclusive DNA experience

*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)

United States based

#LI-JE1

Additional Information:

Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.