Bioinformatics / Computational Genomics Expert

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Role highlights & qualifications

• Commitments Required: At least 6 hours per day and a minimum of 40 hours per week, including a 4-hour overlap with PST.
• Employment Type: Contractor assignment; no medical or paid leave.
• Duration of Contract: 5 weeks. Expected start date is next week.
• Payment Type: $260 per approved task.
• Seeking Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics experts to design challenging, agentic genomics tasks and reference solutions for GeneBench Pro. You will create realistic computational biology problems that require an AI agent to interpret biological data, write and execute code, work across scientific files, and produce objectively verifiable outputs.
• Key Responsibilities
• Design novel, challenging tasks in computational genomics and bioinformatics.
• Design tasks that test higher-order scientific judgment, including handling ambiguous or messy data, identifying artifacts, selecting appropriate analytical approaches, revising assumptions based on intermediate results, and determining when conclusions are decision-ready.
• Build tasks involving realistic scientific data such as FASTA/FASTQ, VCF, BAM/SAM, BED, TSV/CSV, sequence annotations, expression data, and germline or somatic variant data.
• Develop tasks requiring multi-step analysis using Python, command-line tools, or established bioinformatics libraries.

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