Variant Scientist, Tues-Sat

Are you motivated to participate in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment? Do you want to become part of a company that invests in its employees? Are you seeking a position where you can use your skills while continuing to be challenged and learn? Then we encourage you to dive deeper into this opportunity. We believe in career development and empowering our employees.

Not only do we provide career coaches internally, but we offer many training opportunities to expand your knowledge base! We have highly competitive benefits with a variety HMO and PPO options. We have company 401k match along with an Employee Stock Purchase Program. We have tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and even start employees off with 16 days of paid time off plus holidays.

We offer wellness courses and have highly engaged employee resource groups. Come join the Neo team and be part of our amazing World Class Culture! Neo Genomics is looking for a Variant Scientist who wants to continue to learn in order to allow our company to grow. This position will work a Tuesday - Saturday, day shift.

As a Variant Scientist, you will collaborate with multiple teams including bioinformatics, automation, clinical development and operations to help drive continual improvement in efficiency and effectiveness of QC methods. You should be familiar with variant classification guidelines and relevant public genomic databases. Work closely with Molecular Laboratory and Pathology group to classify detected variants.

• Assist in optimization of NGS pipeline analysis and processing.
• Monitor performance of NGS and PCR assays.
• Identify technical issues that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of results and communicate/consult with the internal team.
• Initiate remedial actions to correct the problems.
• Improve processes in pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic testing of NGS and PCR assays.
• Assist in defining conditions and methods for internal genomic sequencing data reanalysis and reporting.
• Assist in the introduction of assay improvements, new assay configurations and validation in the testing laboratory.

• Education:
  
  M.S with 2 years of experience or Ph.D. or M.S. with CGC accreditation 2 years of experience preferred but not required.
• Certified Genetic Counselor accreditation preferred for M.S. degree holders. Clinical Molecular Genetics Biologist Scientist license preferred (CA only).
• Familiarity with AMP/ACMG guidelines for variant classification and relevant public databases.
• Ability to read and analyze relevant clinical literature.