Software Engineers

The Taylor Lab in the Biology and Math and Computer Science departments at Emory University is looking for ambitious individuals to fill multiple software engineering positions working on the Galaxy project. Galaxy (http://www.usegalaxy.org) is a software framework that (a) enables researchers to store, analyze, visualize and share genomic data and (b) provides genomic tool developers with the ability to deploy their tools within a complete analysis framework. Thousands of researchers worldwide use Galaxy on a daily basis. Galaxy is an open source project committed to the openness of scientific enterprise and is free for all.

We are currently seeking engineers with experience in (i) distributed computing and systems programming or (ii) usability and visualization, however candidates with other relevant experience will also be considered. Successful candidates will initially focus on making next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis more widely reliable and accessible as well as participate in the development of bioinformatic tools in application areas such as re-sequencing, de novo assembly, metagenomics, transcriptome analysis and epigenetics. Galaxy is developed in an academic research environment, and members of the Galaxy team work closely with experimentalists on projects at the leading edge of data-intensive biological research.

Python is the primary implementation language for the Galaxy framework. Galaxy's primary user interface is web-based, and makes substantial use of javascript, canvas, and other modern web technologies. Many of the analysis components of Galaxy are performance critical, implemented largely in C, C wrapped in Python, or other languages as appropriate.

Note that these are full time positions located in Atlanta, GA -- we cannot take on contractors at this time.