Req #: 242522 Department: OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY Job Location Detail: Hybrid telework (3 days or more/week) Posting Date: 02/05/2025 Closing Info: Closes On 02/12/2025 Salary: $4,736 - $6,667 per month Shift: First Shift Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701\_a11y.pdf) As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. The Swisher Lab has an amazing opportunity for **Research Consultant** to develop and maintain configurable and modular pipelines that enable the lab to identify novel mutations in ovarian cancer and suitability of treatments for different subsets of ovarian cancer patients. The Research Consultant focuses on genetics research with a focus on ovarian cancer, specifically on generating and running bioinformatics pipelines for analysis of next generation sequencing data from blood and tumor tissue, including targeted sequencing and whole genome sequencing. In addition, this individual will serve as an important member of the lab by helping to develop analysis methods for high throughput molecular assays including methylation mapping and RNAseq data. This position fills an important gap in our lab where very few staff have the knowledge or training on this type of work. This position allows our lab to produce more rigorous and high-quality research and to submit grants that have high quality analytic plans in place and staff able to perform to the work when funded. This position will be working with laboratory members who are located in labs throughout the Seattle campus as well as collaborators who are located throughout the country. This position would be responsible for developing and maintaining pipelines in support of ovarian cancer research. **DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** 70% + Provide computational biology support for a cancer genomics laboratory. + Develop, maintain, and verify bioinformatic pipelines that utilize cutting edge computational tools for analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data. + The pipelines will be used to understanding novel mutations that are involved in ovarian cancer. + Generate analyses that help with derivation of data-driven hypothesis regarding the biology of ovarian cancer development. + The ETL (extract, transform, load) data pipelines operate on bash, Python and R scripts in a Unix environment. + Take ownership of the pipelines and contribute new features as needed.30% + Collaborate with Dr. Swisher to explore best suited bioinformatic solutions to address existing clinical challenges which could include literature review. + Author comprehensive reports describing analysis and interpretation of data and present findings in a group setting. + Prepare and present written and oral reports of experimental results. + May train and direct the work of junior Research Scientists and other laboratory personnel. **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS** + Bachelors Degree in Biotechnology or related field. + Two years in Laboratory experience. **Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.** **Application Process:** The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed. University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.