Research Programmer II
University of Southern California2 months ago
Los Angeles, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$108k - $124k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, document, test, and maintain computational workflows, data analysis methods, and production pipelines for cancer research.
- Assess research computing needs and implement HPC, cloud, containerized, scalable, reproducible, and compliant solutions.
- Contribute to study design, prototype implementations, technical reports, manuscripts, grant proposals, and collaborative research projects.
- Design and deliver training programs and workshops on high-performance and cloud computing for researchers and academic programs.
- Support single-cell, liquid biopsy, imaging, multi-omics, clinical data analysis, cancer modeling, trajectory forecasting, and precision oncology initiatives.
- Optimize applications and computational infrastructure, document systems, and explain technical concepts to interdisciplinary audiences.
- Collaborate with engineers, computational scientists, biologists, clinicians, and IT professionals.
- Maintain technical standards, improve processes, and identify new computational applications for scientific research.
- May supervise junior staff and mentor trainees.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, or a closely related discipline, with combined experience and education accepted as a substitute.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience providing strong technical knowledge in programming and analysis, including senior or lead experience; 5 years is preferred.
- Strong software development skills in Python, C++/C, R, Java, or comparable languages.
- Experience with large, complex biological or clinical datasets and familiarity with data science and machine learning frameworks.
- Knowledge of advanced computational methods including contrastive deep learning, clustering, decision-tree learning, artificial neural networks, and statistical techniques.
- Experience with SQL or MDX and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Advanced Linux/Unix expertise and experience building, deploying, and maintaining open-source software in HPC environments.
- Experience with HPC, high-performance networking, cloud computing, container technologies, workflow management, version control, application performance optimization, GPUs, and large-scale storage systems.
- Experience with parallel and accelerated computing frameworks such as OpenMP and MPI.
- Knowledge of research processes, proposal development, data lifecycle management, reproducible workflows, and federal and sponsor compliance regulations.
- Strong communication, documentation, project management, interpersonal, creative problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to translate scientific research needs into computational and analytical solutions and to provide training or workshops.
Benefits
- Full-time appointment at USC.
- On-site position; not eligible for remote work.
- Grant-funded appointment.
- Benefits-eligible employees receive comprehensive health, wealth, and future-oriented benefits and other perks.
- Resume and cover letter are required for application.