Bioinformatics Scientist/Engineer

Monsanto is a sustainable agriculture company. We deliver agricultural products that support farmers all around the world.

Monsanto is a sustainable agriculture company focused on helping farmers around the world to produce more from their farms, both large and small. As the world's population is expected to exceed 9 billion by mid-century, we seek to help feed that growing population sustainably, affordably, and with minimal environmental impact. Understanding the genomes and evolution of plants, insects, and microbes is central to achieving Monsanto’s vision. We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is excited about applying computational tools to transform genomics data into higher yielding crops and pest control solutions. In this role, you will apply and develop, optimize, and share modern computational methods and bioinformatics solutions with the larger Monsanto scientific community. Some projects will involve collaboration with laboratory research scientists, and the results will be applied to projects in research and development. Wherever possible, you will be encouraged to publish results and contribute open source code.

* Identify and develop software tools for efficient data integration and for mining diverse types of biological data, such as genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics data. * Collaborate closely with scientists from a variety of disciplines, including bench microbiologists, computer scientists, and plant biologists to identify opportunities for accelerating product development. * Design and build data query and visualization tools to explore phenotypic data in conjunction with genomic and systems biology data. * Build innovative frameworks for data integration and automated data mining. * Develop reusable libraries and implement best coding practices to build and continually improve the company's computational capabilities and workflows.

**Required Skills/Experience:** * Master's degree in Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or related field with 2+ years of industry experience. * Experience designing bioinformatics pipelines involving parallelization, job automation, job scheduling and dispatch, job monitoring, event notification, performance tuning and error recovery. * Experience using and developing workflow systems. * Experience with service oriented design and development including creating APIs, RESTful and microservices. * Facility with at least one broadly used statistical package such as R or SAS. * 3+ years of experience using high performance computing environments such as SGE, LSF, or AWS. * Familiarity creating user interfaces via tools such as the R Shiny package, or Tibco’s Spotfire. * Experience with RDBMS such as MySQL or PostgreSQL. Skilled at schema design, performance tuning and trouble shooting. * Experience using source code management systems such as Subversion or Git, familiar with unit testing, bug tracking, build and release management, etc. * Demonstrated ability to learn methods and technologies as necessary to meet objectives. * Ability to work on cross-functional teams to meet milestones and deadlines. * Excellent verbal and written communication skills. **Desired Skills/Experience:** * Scientific programming skills in at least one high performance language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Python). * 3+ years of experience with cutting-edge NGS related analysis or metagenomics domain expertise. * Experience working with noSQLs (e.g. CouchDB, MongoDB, etc). * Experience with distributed computing systems such as Hadoop and Spark. * Experience contributing to or maintaining an open source project. * Work experience in a corporate or industrial environment.