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Natera

Senior Biostatistician

United States

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POSITION:

Senior Biostatistician

JOB LOCATION:
Remote, USA

POSITION SUMMARY:

  • This is an exciting opportunity for a senior biostatistician to participate in advancing Natera's oncology product portfolio of cutting-edge liquid biopsy tests, while working closely with biologists and other cross-functional teams. As a Senior Biostatistician, you will leverage your strong applied statistics background to design and implement statistical analysis and reporting of verification experiments for multiple high-priority development projects.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

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  • With minimal guidance, drive design and execution of verification and validation studies, contributing to oncology product development projects.
  • Perform relevant statistical analyses (e.g., sample size, power, precision, and Local culations) for studies of varying complexity.
  • With minimal guidance, produce high quality presentations and author documentation of analysis plans, methods, results, and interpretation.
  • Effectively convey statistical concepts and results to cross-functional collaborators and stakeholders.
  • When challenges arise, identify risks, communicate concerns, and present potential solutions to the interdisciplinary project team.
  • Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in biostatistics, statistics, or equivalent with 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master's in biostatistics, statistics, or equivalent with 3+ years of relevant experience
  • At least 2 years practical experience with statistical and data analysis software such as R
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
  • Expert applied knowledge of advanced statistical methods in diagnostic medicine.
  • Demonstrated ability and enthusiasm to communicate in cross-functional teams with members of diverse technical backgrounds.
  • Ability to produce high quality written documentation for varying audiences.
  • Prior experience with NGS, genetics, and/or oncology testing a plus.
  • Knowledge of SQL query language (preferred

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT:
  • Duties are typically performed in an office setting. This position requires the ability to use a computer keyboard, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Driven by the passion for elevating the science and utility of genetic testing, Natera is committed to helping families identify and manage genetic diseases. Natera is a rapidly-growing diagnostics company with proprietary bioinformatics and molecular technology for analyzing DNA. Our complex technology has been proven clinically and commercially in the prenatal testing space and we are actively researching its applications in the liquid biopsy space for developing products with oncology applications.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you'll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you'll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits. Healthy catered lunches, Premium snacks and beverages, Onsite gym with cardio and weight-training equipment, Game room with satellite TV, Onsite dry cleaning and alteration service with pick-up and delivery, Employee-organized sport leagues, Happy hours and BBQs, Generous Employee Referral program.

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

POSITION LOCATION: NOTE THAT THIS POSITION IS REMOTE AND CAN WORK FROM ANYWHERE IN THE US

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Job ID: Natera-7897
Employment Type: Other