Thermo Fisher Scientific

Data Analyst for Clinical Diagnostic Systems

Posted on: 22 Feb 2021

South San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them.

How will you make an impact?

You will be a part of the fast-growing field of Clinical Diagnostics developing algorithms for molecular diagnostics based on real-time PCR technologies. Your interaction and collaboration with a talented team of assay, reagents, software, hardware designers and manufacturing will revolutionize healthcare through high throughput diagnostic systems. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has played a pivotal role in the COVID-19 pandemic with the TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit for testing SARS-CoV-2. We continue to innovate and provide new solutions for the pandemic and we need your talent to help save lives.

What will you do?

* Organize and data mine clinical data to assess the performance of clinical tests
* Work closely with scientists and engineers with data analysis & experimental design
* Develop software and analysis pipelines for data mining large datasets and auto generation of reports
* Develop classification algorithms and model data
* Perform root cause analysis
* Collaborate and communicate with various teams and business units

How will you get here?

Education

* Bachelors in Molecular Biology, Biology, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computational Biology, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science or related discipline; postgraduate degree (Masters, PhD) is highly preferred

Experience

2022 3+ years of product development experience (biotechnology industry preferred)

2022 Strong hands on data analytics, statistical modeling, and classifiers experience

2022 Data structures and common methods in data transformation

2022 Pattern recognition and predictive modeling skills

2022 Excellent programming skills in C++, Java or Python

2022 Experience utilizing Matlab, JMP, R, or SPSS

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

2022 Understanding of clinical trial design and evaluation

2022 Knowledge in Molecular Biology, Clinical Diagnostics

2022 Strong understanding of qPCR and amplification curve data

2022 Prior experience with US-FDA 510k product development/submission, 21 CFR Part 11, and ISO 13485 is highly preferred

2022 Ability to present and communicate data analysis results to non-experts

2022 Ability to work independently and in a team environment

Our global team of more than 75,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Waltham, MA

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $24 billion and approximately 70,000 employees globally. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands - Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services - we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services.

To serve science, Thermo Fisher Scientific needs to stay ahead of it. To be the world leader in serving science, we need to anticipate (pre-empt) customer needs. We need to constantly think about advancing science, so customers have the freedom to be bolder and more innovative – we are committed to pushing science and technology a step beyond where it is today.