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This Direct-Hire position is in the Food and Drug Administration and is located in the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), Office of Research, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (DBB), which is focused on using in silico approaches to solve problems that have a detrimental effect on human health. In addition, the division is responsible for planning and carrying out research in computational chemistry, bioinformatics and pattern recognition.

Responsibilities
  • Design and develop scientific and management software applications.
  • Participate in establishing system design characteristics to meet requirements.
  • Participate in conferences and meetings of professional groups concerned with the application of bioinformatics and computer technologies.
  • Prepare software documentation, technical reports and presentations related to assigned projects.
  • Establish functional requirements through discussion with customers and observations of their methods and business processes; and investigate software architectures and development of methods to improve software reusability and portability.
  • Apply scientific computing techniques to computationally intensive tasks that are encountered in research and management applications.
  • Serve as a member of a team of computer scientists and engineers that design, develop and/or modify existing software to help solve scientific computing problems.

Travel Required
25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.

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