Job Details:

JOB TITLE: Comparative Genetics Data Scientist

Company Background:

Cobb-Vantress is a global genetics improvement company, pioneering poultry genetics, headquartered in the United States with operations in 10 countries, spread around 5 continents.

Broiler chickens are selected from a pedigree population through genetic breeding values based on a number of desired traits, including health, fertility, productivity or feed efficiency. With superior genetics, Cobb-Vantress helps its customers in supply chains around the world produce offspring with improved robustness, superior production efficiency and greater sustainability. Cobb’s Vision, “Responsibly and efficiently feed the world”, is supported by being a leader in the industry, capturing maximum potential from genetics using innovation and technology.

Overall Job Purpose:

• The purpose of this position is to develop and execute state-of-the-art genomic approaches to identify positive and negative alleles in broiler breeding populations. The candidate would be expected to develop and deploy advanced bioinformatic and statistical techniques to mine and evaluate genome data to achieve genetic gains and competitive advantage that are in line with Cobb business objectives. The Scientist would i) assist in the development of research plans and contribute to projects consistent with the gene discovery effort ii) conduct experiments focusing on poultry complex traits and diseases and iii) be self-motivated and able to collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts necessary to support research objectives.

Qualifications and experience:

• Advanced Degree (PhD) Molecular, Comparative or Statistical genetics using computational biology, data science, machine learning focusing on the identification of genetic variants causing phenotypes and disease.
• Candidates with various levels of experience will be considered.
• Knowledge of applying genomics, transcriptomics and protein modeling towards the identification non-productive alleles across breeding populations would be beneficial.
• Candidate must have a proven record of success in relevant field (publications and/or other achievements) and demonstrated experimental design and execution.
• Experience developing and implementing short and long-term research projects and achieve results.

Expectations and behaviors:

• Understanding of experimental design to ensure development and validation activities are reproducible
• Interprets, summarizes data and develops new experiments based on results and shares results across Research organization.
• Ability to exercise common sense and able to multitask.
• Provides solutions to researchers within and across projects by identifying opportunities to improve livestock health traits.
• Remains current on new technology by reviewing literature, participating in professional meetings and career development activities and encouraging others to bring information into research activities.
• Contribute to scientific publications and conferences.
• Maintain professional verbal and written communications with co-workers, internal and external customers, and vendors at all times.
• Strive to advance skills and display a willingness to accept future development.

Relocation Assistance Eligible:

Work Shift:

Hourly Applicants ONLY -You must complete the task after submitting your application to provide additional information to be considered for employment.

Tyson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.

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