Bioinformatics Data Scientist - Machine Learning-1805012 We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, citizenship, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, disability status, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Description
BASF's Bioscience division prides itself as a unique and innovative piece of the global BASF enterprise. With over 150 years of history, BASF has proven to be a thought-leader and visionary moving forward to create chemistry for a sustainable future.
The Enzymes team, located predominately in San Diego, has an environment and culture that puts employees first, allowing for personal flexibility and offers a benefits program that is robust and rewarding. Couple that with the organizations reputation of continued global growth, and the full total rewards as a BASF employee are hard to be matched.
Our research focus is simply stated: We create chemistry for a sustainable future. As a global organization, our employees have a world of opportunity at their fingertips- literally. The pillars of success for BASF Bioscience are as follows:
· Connecting people and their passion for bioscience with a structured, engaged, and empowered team while allowing for them to find the work life balance needed to connect with loved ones at home and outside of work priorities/activities. Find yourself in the career you've dreamed of with the balance you require.
Engaging employees to build a high-performance culture that will drive long-term success for themselves and the company, with an open door to many business units and locations around the world. We offer global development opportunities, as well as, encourage relationship building across the organization.
· Caring about one another, our customers and stakeholders, and our communities and environment. As part of the BASF Bioscience team, it is our duty to ensure we are driving thoughtful and meaningful innovations for the future. In fact, it stretches beyond our duty...it's our passion.
· Putting lifelong learning first by offering a wide range of career development opportunities. This will not be like working at your typical R&D or biotech company. We offer numerous training and development courses, tuition reimbursement, and endorsements for our employees to heighten their career aspirations.
Bioinformatics Data Scientist - Machine Learning (1805012) – San Diego, CA
Where the Chemistry Happens
We are seeking a talented professional like you to join our R&D Data Science team and provide BASF-wide data solutions for multiple application areas with a focus on Enzyme product development. This comprises biotechnological sciences and biotechnology development from gene discovery to enzyme production via fermentation to formulations, that are all based on data analysis, data based modeling and optimization.
In this role, you will be a self-starter who can solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and collaborate well with project leaders, team members, and customers. You will have the opportunity to work autonomously and as part of a team.
Formula for Success
- Leveraging your background in mathematics, statistics or IT in combination with a strong interest in natural sciences, you will actively identify needs of researchers, translate these into R&D software specifications and develop solutions involving larger datasets and machine learning techniques using your strong programming skills using Python, R, Java, JS, C++.
- Your robust scientific analytical skills, experience in relational database design and experience with NoSQL databases (Hadoop, map-reduce and tool stacks) will be vital as you analyze biological data including gene structure, DNA and protein sequences as well as eukaryotic, prokaryotic and metagenomic datasets to help guide laboratory experiments.
- Your familiarity with different analytical areas of expertise in AI (e.g., machine/reinforcement learning, statistics, analytics) will be critical as you explore technical possibilities and create ideas together with internal non-AI-expert business partners. Your thorough understanding of bioinformatics and genomics tools and databases will enable you to design and deploy solutions using Artificial Intelligence
- Successfully engaging across the organization, you will be responsible for projects in this field and closely cooperate with R&D, Engineering and central functions.
- Your strong communication skills will be a valued asset as you share ideas and solutions of data architecture and big data technology to a broad community of researcher scientists and developers and therefore, you will be acting as an enabler in interdisciplinary project teams.
- As a subject matter expert and a leader, you will provide creativity and technical leadership.
- Using your skills in collaboration and passion for innovation, you will establish and maintain collaborations with academic research groups in that domain while evaluating new approaches and exploring new application opportunities.
Create Your Own Chemistry: What We Offer You Adding value to our customers begins with adding value to you. You@BASF is the suite of benefits, perks, programs and unique opportunities we offer to support you—the whole you—in all stages of your life and career. With you@BASF, you create your own chemistry. The total rewards that you receive as a BASF employee go way beyond a paycheck. From competitive health and insurance plans, to robust retirement benefits that include company-matching contributions, to making sure you never stop learning, we believe investing in you is investing in our success. Working for a large, global organization, you'll have a chance to grow professionally and personally, expand your network and build a rewarding and dynamic career.
BASF provides interesting and challenging learning and development opportunities to help you make the most of your talents and your job.
