Bioinformatics/Phylogenetics Specialist

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TSPi

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Healthcare • Government

TSPi is a small business IT services firm that designs and implements enterprise IT solutions to improve efficiency, increase performance, and accelerate customer success. The company focuses on application modernization, low-code platforms, cloud and DevOps architecture, and loans origination/management solutions for public sector clients. TSPi holds multiple federal contract vehicles (GSA MAS, CIO‑SP3, NASA SEWP V), maintains ISO and CMMI certifications, and operates as a value‑added reseller and incubator to accelerate government IT transformation.

📋 Description

• Provide scientific expertise in HIV sequence analysis, pairwise genetic distance methods, phylogenetics, phylodynamics, cluster detection logic, sequence data quality, analytic validation, and scientific testing • Review, assess, and approve proposed changes to analytic methods, cluster detection logic, and bioinformatics workflows • Validate analytic outputs, algorithms, and software enhancements through scientific testing, benchmarking, and quality assurance • Develop and oversee strategies for synthetic, test, and validation datasets • Evaluate sequence data quality and analytic performance, identify issues, and recommend corrective actions • Advise on modernization, optimization, and scalability of bioinformatics pipelines and computational workflows • Support adoption of emerging methods, technologies, and best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree plus 3 years of relevant experience, or a PhD • Degree in bioinformatics, epidemiology, public health, or a related field required • Experience using computational tools to identify potential HIV transmission clusters from genetic sequence data • Experience developing, validating, and maintaining bioinformatics pipelines for HIV or other infectious-disease sequence data • Experience in research, surveillance, or public health environments • Knowledge of phylogenetic and phylodynamic methods • Ability to interpret transmission-cluster analyses, molecular epidemiology findings, and genetic distance-based approaches • Experience collaborating with epidemiologists, software developers, data scientists, and public health stakeholders • Ability to translate scientific requirements into analytic solutions and system enhancements

🏖️ Benefits

• Market-competitive salary • Comprehensive employee benefits • Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment