Data Scientist I

Rapidly Growing Life Sciences Technology Company

Ultima Genomics is a rapidly growing company that is developing ground-breaking genomics technologies. Our mission is to continuously drive the scale of genomic information to enable unprecedented advances in biology and improvements in human health. We have developed a foundational new approach to sequencing at scale that overcomes limitations due to the high costs of current technologies. We are well-funded and have raised approximately $600 million from global top-tier investors. Our team brings together unique and diverse expertise across multiple disciplines, from healthcare and life sciences, to engineering, to technology and software and beyond. We are a collaborative group, including successful entrepreneurs, chemists, hardware and software engineers, genomics and biotechnology experts, molecular and computational biologists, software and algorithm experts, and operations and commercial leaders. Join us to develop and commercialize technologies that unleash the power of genomics at scale and empower the future of human health. 

We are seeking a Data Scientist I with solid python skills, data analysis experience, and a good foundation in statistics to join our System Analytics team.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with a small team of data scientists and interact with scientists and engineers across the company. You will develop monitoring and alerting infrastructure, generating insights to improve system performance. Day-to-day assignments will include gathering requirements, implementing new alerting features, and analyzing trends across large numbers of sequencing experiments.

This is a full-time 6-month contracting position based in Fremont, California.

How You’ll Contribute

• Maintain and expand SAM Alerts capabilities
  • Develop and deploy application-specific alerts (“app alerts”) for every supported Ultima sequencing application
  • Review app alerts with stakeholders on a bi-weekly basis
  • Revise SAM alerting thresholds for compatibility with new baseline releases, as necessary
  • Write and maintain production-quality, well-documented code
• Maintain and add functionality to the SAM dashboard
  • Monitor the SAM JIRA board, evaluate and implement feature requests and bug fixes
  • Report on development progress in weekly team meetings
  • Write and maintain production-quality, well-documented code
• Analyze fleetwide performance issues
  • Prioritize issues impacting our ability to meet customer-facing specs
  • Provide comprehensive summaries to serve as a starting point for further troubleshooting (e.g. starting dates, trends, correlation to changes in consumables, correlation to HW upgrades or PMs)
  • Push for permanent fixes where possible, whether through changes in design, PMs, QC, etc. Otherwise, ensure that the problem can be easily detected and mitigated going forward; introduce new alerted metrics and/or alerting logic as needed
  • Communicate findings across departments, including Engineering, Manufacturing, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Architecture & Integration
• Collaborate across teams on priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Other duties as assigned  

Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• BS degree in Engineering, Physics, or other quantitative field
• Familiarity with Plotly Dash preferred
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL preferred
• At least 1 year hands-on data science/data analysis experience
• Experience working with scientific data
• Solid python skills, especially NumPy and SciPy
• Machine learning skills (clustering, PCA, linear and logistic regression, etc)
• Strong foundation in statistics and probability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ultima Genomics is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable laws. See also Ultima Genomics’ EEO Policy and Know Your Rights. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting recruiting@ultimagen.com.