Job Description

Requisition Details

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GENERAL REQUISITION INFORMATION

EEO Statement:

UNMC is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, including an equal opportunity employer of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Location

Omaha, NE

Requisition Number:

Staff_14324

Department

Genetics Cell Biology & Anatomy 50000507

Business Unit

College of Medicine

Reg-Temp

Part-Time Regular

Work Schedule

Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Remote/Telecommuting

No remote/telecommuting opportunity

Position Summary

PART-TIME



Position requires broad-based experience in bioinformatics research, analysis workflows and hardware and software support. The Bioinformatics Scientist works closely with the BSBC Director and interacts routinely with UNMC investigators, other scientists, graduate students, software and hardware industry representatives, service technicians, as well as key academic and industry collaborators to assist stakeholders in all stages of projects, including initial consultation, design, development, and analyses performed by the BSBC facility. This person coordinates the activities of core staff, manages Windows and Linux servers, databases and core websites, carries out necessary development work, helps organize workshops, participates in billing/budget operations, and presents BSBC core project development and core progress in campus-wide seminars.

Position Details

Additional Information

Posting Category

Operations

Working Title

Bioinformatics Data Scientist (Part-Time)

Job Title

Research/Ag Specialist

Salary Grade

RA22S

Appointment Type

B1 - REG MGR PROF SALARY

Salary Range

$28,090 - $42,135/annual

Job Requisition Begin Date

12/31/2025

Application Review Date

01/08/2026

Review Date Information:

Initial application review will begin on the date provided in the field above. Applications received prior to this review date will be considered. Applications received after the review date may be considered.


Required and Preferred Qualifications

Required Education:

Bachelor's degree

If any degree major/training is required, please specify the type. (NOTE: Concentration and minors are not equivalent to a major)

Computer Science, Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics, or related Quantitative/Biomedical discipline)



(Will consider additional related post high school education in lieu of required experience)

Required Experience

2 years

If any experience is required, please specify what kind of experience:

Experience with Computational Chemistry, in silico drug screening, Bioinformatics data analysis, data management, system administration, pipeline design.



(Will consider additional related post high school education in lieu of required experience)

Required License

No

If yes, what is the required licensure/certification?

Required Computer Applications:

Not Applicable

Required Other Computer Applications:

General experience with the Linux/Gnu operating system and utilities. General experience with scripting or compiled programming languages (e.g., BASH shell scripting, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, Mono.) Skilled with HPC administration, experience with job sc

Required Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

DNA and protein sequence alignment software (e.g., BLA ST, MUMMER); scientific and statistical software (e.g., MATLAB, R); software for next-generation sequencing {NGS) data management and analysis

Preferred Education:

Doctoral degree or equivalent

If any degree/training is preferred, please specify the type:

Computer Science, Bioinformatics or related quantitative/biomedical discipline.

Preferred Experience:

Virtual screening of drug compound libraries using Schrodinger software suite, Scientific data analysis, data management, or related software development experience. Experience working with NGS data and other multi-omics data. Teaching or mentoring experience is highly desirable.

Preferred License:

No

If yes, what is the preferred licensure/certification?:

Preferred Computer Applications:

Not Applicable

Preferred Other Computer Applications:

DNA and protein sequence alignment software (e.g., BLA ST, MUMMER); scientific and statistical software (e.g., MATLAB, R); software for next-generation sequencing {NGS) data management and analysis.

Preferred Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Laboratory Information Management Systems {LIMS); Eclipse IDE; SG E, PBS or other batch job schedulers; Relational Database Management Systems {RDBMS) and SQL programming; Message Passing Interface {MPI) programming; CUDA/OpenCL/G PU programming; use of the MapReduce/Hadoop framework.
The knowledge of or ability to quickly become familiar with and productive in any of a variety of programming languages and bioinformatic software applications in either conventional (data center), high-performance computing {HPC), or cloud computing environments.

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