Position: Data Scientist for Bio/Chemo-Informatician project
Company: Creative Quarter
Experience required: 1y
Category: Data Science
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Company:** HACARUS (Japan, https://hacarus.com/)

**What you will do:**
Analysis on human genome 
Exploratory data analysis 
Studies based on the obtained data 
Contact and coordination with customers 

By using bio / chemoinformatics analysis, you will be responsible for the discovery and optimization of lead compounds, medical drug production target molecules, disease-related genes and environmental factors, and other tasks that lead to an understanding of medical data. 
You will be asked to collaborate with the client’s in-house data scientists for the research and make a proposition on the AI development in pharmaceutical research. 

**Required Skills & Experience:**
● **Experience in bio or chemoinfo related data analysis** 
● Programming experience (Python / Java / Scala etc.) 
● **Research and practical experience in data science** 
● Good communication skills in English 

**Nice-to-have skills:** 
● Experience in working with Japanese clients (not mandatory) 
● Experience in developing and operating systems using machine learning 
● Analysis of protein structure by molecular dynamics simulation 
● Gene expression analysis and metagenome analysis using high-speed sequencer 
● Systems biology 

**Team:**
Currently, the data science team has 9 employees and 27 student engineers. Other staff are four embedded engineers (including one Filipino) with a hardware background, and they are all in Kyoto, Japan. There are five application development engineers in the Philippines who mainly develop package products for visual inspection and one manager in Kyoto (German) to coordinate this team.

**Interview steps:**
HR interview (15-20 min)
Technical interviews (1-2, video-call in English, about 1 hour)