Variant Scientist

Job Description

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

Responsibilities Include:

• Summarize somatic and inherited genetic test results and generate customized result reports
• Utilize a variety of in-house software tools to research and write reports
• Perform critical quality control functions for laboratory workflow and clinical reports
• Perform research on genes and novel sequence variants to determine clinical relevance
• Assist in variant classification based on emerging scientific information
• Participate in research and development of new gene panels and tests, and updates to existing tests

Qualifications:

• PhD in Cancer Genetics, Human Genetics or Biological Sciences
• Experience coding in a scripting language, preferably Python or R
• Prior experience in a diagnostic laboratory, clinical report writing, and familiarity with human mutation databases, genome browsers, and HGVS nomenclature
• Oncology experience strongly preferred
• Demonstrated attention to detail, excellent communication and writing skills