Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit, unified adult cancer care and research center that is clinically integrated with UW Medicine, a world leader in clinical care, research and learning. The first National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in the Pacific Northwest, Fred Hutch’s global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy, and COVID-19 vaccines has confirmed our reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy, and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

 

At Fred Hutch, we believe that the innovation, collaboration, and rigor that result from diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission of eliminating cancer and related diseases. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems. Fred Hutch is in pursuit of becoming an antiracist organization. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, antiracism, and inclusion.

 

The Leek group is committed to being a welcoming place to all students, postdocs, faculty and collaborators (see our Code of Conduct). We work together on projects, share credit liberally, encourage and support each other, and try to solve problems that make the world a better place. We have hired economists, computer scientists, geneticists, biologists, social workers, and everything in between. We have hired people with everything from GED level education to postdoctoral level education and all are treated equally as team contributors.  We support flexible work arrangements, remote work, and are committed to life-work balance in everything we do. We believe excellence is defined broadly and want to encourage people to build on their personal strengths and learn new things. We have a great track record of helping people achieve their goals in research, careers, and life and would love to work with you!

 

More information about how we work can be seen in our open-source guides:

 

• Guide to Career Planning: https://github.com/jtleek/careerplanning
• Guide to Data Sharing: https://github.com/jtleek/datasharing
• Guide to Reading Papers: https://github.com/jtleek/readingpapers
• Guide to First Paper: https://github.com/jtleek/firstpaper
• Guide to Giving Talks: https://github.com/jtleek/talkguide
• Guide to Writing R Packages: https://github.com/jtleek/rpackages

 

Precision Oncology holds incredible promise for improving the diagnosis, treatment, and management of cancer in patient populations. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center has recently established the Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute which integrates fundamental biology, technology, immunology, data science and clinical experience into strategies to prevent, detect and treat cancer.

 

To achieve this incredible promise requires significant new data science, machine learning, and clinical data analysis methodologies. The postdoctoral fellow will focus on the development of tools for translational data science in precision oncology. Depending on the interests and talents of the postdoctoral fellow, they may contribute to new data infrastructure or data management techniques, new machine learning methodology, new implementation science, or new clinical trial methodology. They will work in collaboration with colleagues in the basic, computational, and medical sciences to translate these new data driven techniques for use in the clinic.

 

Specifically, the postdoc will have the following duties:

• Reading relevant literature to understand the current state of the art.
• Developing new statistical models leveraging public and investigator collected high throughput data
• Writing new R packages or Shiny Apps for implementation of developed methodology
• Developing benchmarks and working together with staff to evaluate algorithms on those benchmarks.
• Collaborating with computational and biomedical collaborators to evaluate and apply the developed methodologies to improve analyses
• Collaborating with Fred Hutch IT and Scientific Computing Staff to translate ideas into practice
• Contributing to writing papers and software testing.

 

• The successful applicant will have (or will be in the process of obtaining) a PhD in biostatistics, statistics, computer science, machine learning, or another statistical or computational discipline
• Creative and thoughtful
• Familiar with R and R packages
• A careful writer and diligent editor
• An interest in entrepreneurial and translational activities
• Excited to contribute to an important goal

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

If you are interested in this position, please submit the following materials:

• A CV summarizing your education and work experience so far.
• The names and email addresses of two references.
• Two publications or preprints featuring your work.
• A code sample representing code that you are proud of. This doesn’t have to be long or especially fancy, but should be clean and do something non-trivial. Ideally this would be present as a commit to a code repository such as GitHub, but emailed code is fine as well.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center has a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine requirement, with exceptions only for approved medical or religious accommodations. As a condition of employment, newly hired employees must, prior to their first day of employment:
Provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 ; OR
Initiate the accommodations process to request a religious or medical accommodation (medical accommodations require a healthcare provider’s certification).

A statement describing your commitment and contributions toward greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in your career or that will be made through your work at Fred Hutch is requested of all finalists.

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The annual base salary range for this position is from $65,484.00 to $100,000.00 and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.  

 

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, income-based child care subsidy, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (22 days per year), paid sick leave (up to 30 calendar days per occurrence of a qualifying reason), paid holidays (13 days per year), and paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks). 

 

This position may be eligible for relocation assistance.

This position may be eligible for a sign-on bonus.  

 

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) Employer. We are committed to cultivating a workplace in which diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and respected. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability (physical or mental), marital or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, political ideology, or membership in any other legally protected class. We are an Affirmative Action employer. We encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds to apply and desire priority referrals of protected veterans. If due to a disability you need assistance/and or a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to our Employee Services Center at hrops@fredhutch.org or by calling 206-667-4700.