Job Description

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 35,000 employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 35,000 employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Lilly Neuroscience is seeking an associate-level computational scientist to join the Pain and Migraine discovery biology group to facilitate its mission of discovering novel medicines for the treatment of Chronic Pain Conditions. You should be passionate about cutting edge computational approaches for understanding the neurobiology of pain, including the integration of multi-omic data, the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the analysis and visualization of complex datasets. You should possess an exceptional attention to scientific detail, a keen interest in understanding pathophysiology of chronic pain, and be highly collaborative within the lab and across the group. Are you looking for an exciting career in research? Are you passionate about pursuing medicines that make life better for patients, particularly in the area of Pain and Migraine? This could be the role for you.

Your Key Responsibilities Might Include:

Collaborating with cross-functional teams from basic research and clinical development to support drug discovery and development strategies through analyses of external and internal omics data.
Applying innovative computational methods to multiscale genomics and molecular profiling data in chronic pain. Participate in experimental design, genomic data generation and analyses to influence the discovery of novel pain targets and patient biomarkers.
Participating in research to interrogate the molecular heterogeneity of chronic pain mechanisms. Collaborate with academic and medical experts to build internal knowledge of the molecular basis of chronic pain.
Collaborating with other informatics scientists and statisticians around data analysis methods and solutions for automated workflows, database creation, and data visualization.

Basic Qualifications:     

BS and/or MS in a relevant field such as bioinformatics, biostatistics, biomedical informatics, or a related discipline.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

1+ years of relevant experience is desired
Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Python and R.
Experience in computational methods for genomic and genetic data analysis
Experience in managing, processing and analyzing data from one or more NGS platforms such as whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing, RNA-Seq, single cell sequencing, ATAC-Seq, ChIPSeq, and expression, genotyping, and methylation arrays. Expertise with publicly and commercially available bioinformatics tools for NGS analysis and genetics and genomics databases. Experience with machine learning and/or artificial intelligence methods.
Industry experience in pharmaceutical or biotech setting highly desirable
Experience with high performance cluster computing queuing systems such as SGE or condor.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, and a record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals