Job Title: Data Wrangler
Salary: DOE, $70,000-$104,000 along with bonus eligibility and comprehensive benefits package
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Our Mission
The Ellison Medical Institute, formerly known as the Ellison Institute of Technology Los Angeles, strives to spark innovation, leverage technology, and drive interdisciplinary, patient-centered research to continually enhance health, reimagine and redefine cancer care, and transform lives.

Established in 2016 as a medical research and development center, the Institute features innovation labs for artificial intelligence and molecular analytics and was among the first organizations to vertically integrate the interdisciplinary study and treatment of disease. We offer multifaceted programs, including a preventative medicine and cancer clinic, cross-disciplinary research laboratories, a health policy think-tank, and community outreach and educational programs.

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Job Summary
We are seeking an Data Wrangler with a strong interest in cancer biology to join our Computational Biology team. In this role, you will design and implement robust and effective data management and analytical strategies to support biological discovery within a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, experimentalists, computer scientists, engineers, statisticians, and biologists. You will help formulate and execute plans for data analysis, management, and visualization, ensuring insights are rigorous, reproducible, and grounded in high-quality data. These cancer-related data sets include high-dimensional multi-omic data, time-lapse live-cell microscopy, and complex clinical information derived from electronic medical records.

Why You Should Join Us:

• Advance Cancer Research: Contribute to high-impact projects that integrate computational biology with clinical and experimental science to transform cancer care.
• Tackle Complex Data Challenges: Play a critical role in managing and analyzing high-dimensional, multi-omic, and clinical data that drive scientific discovery.
• Be Part of a Mission-Driven Institute: Join a team committed to reimagining healthcare and enhancing lives through innovation, research, and community engagement.

Job Accountabilities:

• Assist analysts and institute researchers in the analysis of data, focusing on data quality assurance, cleaning, aggregation and integration (wrangling), and visualization under supervision.
• Support lab researchers in their collection, processing and analysis of experimental, clinical and other biomedical data to ensure that appropriate metadata are obtained and that the data is properly stored both for investigation and for longer-term preservation
• Test, run, and debug data processing pipelines.
• Coordinate, communicate and collaborate with experimentalists to assist data exchange and federation.
• Modifies and adapts software applications using standard procedures and techniques.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computational and Systems Biology, or related field.
• Required Experience: At least one year of experience in data collection, analysis, visualization, transformation, management, and/or warehousing preferred.
• Required Knowledge & Skills:
  • Ability to input, output, and manipulate data using the R statistical analysis platform, including familiarity with the tidyverse ecosystem and the rmarkdown package. Sample code required.
  • Familiarity with data management and analysis practices in biomedical research, including metadata and ontology usages and reproducible research concepts and practices.
  • Working knowledge of relational databases. Knowledge of other storage solutions and resources for scientific data (e.g. NoSQL databases, HDF5, etc) a plus.
  • Familiarity with software development processes and tools a plus. Degree in biology or related fields.
  • Experience with Linux shell scripting, command line tools, Git, and simple system administration tasks.
  • Facility with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Good writing and verbal communication abilities.

For the safety and health of employees, guests, and patients, the Ellison Medical Institute may mandate vaccination requirements for employment. The Ellison Medical Institute's policies are always subject to review and change to ensure they are appropriate under the circumstances.

The Ellison Medical Institute is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that an inclusive, collaborative team environment is just as important to our mission as stethoscopes and microscopes. We strive to always provide employees a supportive atmosphere, so they feel confident taking creative risks toward innovation. The Ellison Medical Institute values emotional intelligence and communication with empathy and respect for others. We seek to build a diverse group of people who are curious, have a deep sense of responsibility, and the grit needed to achieve excellence.

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