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Calico Life Sciences - Head of Data Platform

I'm leading a newly formed software engineering team. We work closely with computational biologists, machine learning experts, and scientists to create and maintain a platform to derive insights from data produced by Calico, by Calico’s collaborators, and from publicly available sources. Relevant data spans multiple organisms (from yeast to human), scales (from entire organisms to molecules), data modalities (from physiology to sequencing to imaging to free text), and time scales (from single time points to continuous time series). The team will build and maintain a data warehouse that stores this data in an organized format with metadata, and allows easy exploration, analysis, and visualization of this data by our scientists. The team will also help develop and maintain a repository of scalable, reusable tools for data processing and visualization, machine learning, and natural language processing.

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Calico Life Sciences | Full Stack Engineer | South San Francisco | Full-time | Onsite | Visa

At Calico (an Alphabet company), we’re using cutting-edge biology and machine learning to understand aging and age-related conditions like cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s—to help people live healthier, longer lives. This is an interdisciplinary, long-term effort at a nimble startup with a firm financial footing. Here is NYTimes coverage of a recent Nature paper from Calico scientists: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/science/youth-cells-aging...

Who you are: You’re an expert React developer who enjoys working in a team environment and collaborating closely with a fellow React-proficient UX designer. You’re excited to use the latest technologies like GraphQL, Apollo, Flask, SQLAlchemy, MySQL, Apache Airflow, Docker, and Google Cloud Platform. You obsess over software usability and great design. You want to help people live healthier lives for longer.

Who we are: We’re a close-knit group of engineers, scientists, and UX designers with diverse backgrounds. We believe that such diversity is critical to understanding our users and building great software. Our scientists and computational biologists all sit within walking distance, making it easy to work with them to learn and iterate rapidly.

Our software organizes, processes, and visualizes the data generated by Calico scientists, accelerating their basic and translational research. Join us to make a difference in understanding the biology of aging and developing interventions to help people lead healthier lives.

Apply at http://www.calicolabs.com/career/?c=uBkzZqY2Uq&t=full-stack-... or email ken [at] calicolabs.com