Director of Science
Core
Guide scientific research and development in genetics to build algorithms for ethnicity estimation, relationship inference, and local ancestry analysis for consumer DNA products.
Role type
Director of Science (Genetics)
Builds
Production-ready algorithms and pipelines for genetic genealogy and DNA analysis
Domain
Consumer genetics and bioinformatics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Human population genetics, genotyping/sequencing data analysis, genomic data pipelines, machine learning/statistical modeling for biological data, Python, large-scale genomic datasets
Preferred skills
Pipeline managers (Snakemake, Airflow), AWS
Responsibilities
Define and execute the scientific roadmap, manage and mentor senior scientists and data scientists, lead design and optimization of scalable algorithms, collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate research into features
Seniority
Director, hands-on leadership
