Research Engineer in the Public Health Research Center - Dr. Youssef Idaghdour

NYU Abu Dhabi is pioneering a new model of higher education for a global world, dedicated to excellence in teaching and research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanity?s shared challenges. Drawing on the strengths of the NYU global network, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on intercultural understanding and leadership. It supports innovative research and graduate education programs that push forward the frontiers of knowledge and respond in powerful and interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local challenges.

Description

The Public Health Research Center (PHRC) at New York University Abu Dhabi seeks to recruit a talented, motivated and experienced Research Engineer with expertise in creating, developing, testing and maintaining high quality applications and in particular Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). The role of the selected applicant will focus on supporting the Center’s mission by developing a comprehensive system allowing the adequate and effective management of samples and all its associated data. The PHRC aims to understand the basis of health outcomes and traits related to the most common non-communicable diseases in the UAE by investigating and integrating when possible epidemiological, clinical and genetic data.

The appointed applicant will be in charge of creating, developing, configuring and maintaining a LIMS system customized to the needs of the PHRC research projects including but not limited to sample and associated data inventories, development for rapid, efficient and automated data tracking and retrieval workflows. The successful candidate will also contribute to write documentation for the developed tools, pipelines/workflows, SOPs and resources available. The candidate will have to integrate into the existing team of scientists and participate and lead training sessions of the PHRC team when needed. The candidate must have excellent organizational and communication skills with a high level of proficiency in English and the ability to work effectively in a team as well as individually.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Master’s degree in Computer science, Information Systems or equivalent;

A minimum of 2 years of related working experience in LIMS environment development, or related environment

Experience with validation procedures within a software development environment (user acceptance testing, issue tracking/reporting/testing etc.).

A minimum of 3 years in SDLC (software development life cycle).

Experience in both Windows and Linux OS.

A minimum of 3 years’ experience in relational databases (e.g. MySQL) and developing front-end database interfaces.

A minimum of 3 years’ experience in at least one of the following languages Perl/Python/Java/PHP.

Experience in server administration and maintenance.

For consideration, applicants need to submit, through the Interfolio platform, a cover letter, curriculum vitae, transcript, research statement and three letters of reference, all in PDF format. If you have any further questions, please send an email to Dr. Youssef Idaghdour, at yv8@nyu.edu

The terms of employment are very competitive and include housing and educational subsidies for children. Applications will be accepted immediately and candidates will be considered until the position is filled.

About NYUAD

NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities.

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