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Director of Bioinformatics and Machine Learning
Natera San Carlos, CA Posted Oct 19
About the role
Natera's mission is to change the management of disease worldwide by using information from a simple blood draw to detect disease early and proactively inform treatment.
What you'll do
- Define and execute research roadmaps for cancer early detection in partnership with Research, Product, Clinical, and Assay Development stakeholders.
- Lead, hire, and develop a team of machine learning and bioinformatics scientists, building a culture of scientific rigor, innovation, and ownership.
- Own the computational design of research studies, including cohort selection, confounder control, and validation strategies that prevent overfitting and data leakage.
- Partner with molecular biology teams to design experiments that generate data capable of answering the key scientific and clinical questions.
- Serve as the computational subject matter expert for leadership and cross-functional partners, communicating tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Advance Natera's scientific leadership through publications, conference presentations, and intellectual property.
What you'll need
Natera lists the full requirements on its posting.