Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world's leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world's deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. These values are grounded in and expressed through the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems. Fred Hutch is in pursuit of becoming an anti-racist organization. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, anti-racism and inclusion.

The Leek group is committed to being a welcoming place to all students, postdocs, faculty, and collaborators (see our Code of Conduct). We work together on projects, share credit liberally, encourage and support each other, and try to solve problems that make the world a better place. We have hired economists, computer scientists, geneticists, biologists, social workers, and everything in between. We have hired people with everything from GED level education to postdoctoral level education and all are treated equally as team contributors. We support flexible work arrangements, remote work, and are committed to work-life balance in everything we do. We believe excellence is defined broadly and want to encourage people to build on their personal strengths and learn new things. We have a great track record of helping people achieve their goals in research, careers, and life and would love to work with you!

More information about how we work can be seen in our open-source guides:

• Guide to Career Planning: https://github.com/jtleek/careerplanning
• Guide to Data Sharing: https://github.com/jtleek/datasharing
• Guide to Reading Papers: https://github.com/jtleek/readingpapers
• Guide to First Paper: https://github.com/jtleek/firstpaper
• Guide to Giving Talks: https://github.com/jtleek/talkguide
• Guide to Writing R Packages: https://github.com/jtleek/rpackages

Responsibilities

The Hutch Data Science Lab is involved in large education focused initiatives funded by NIH grants. Two of these projects involve delivering training materials to researchers to help catalyze their work in a scalable manner. A postdoctoral researcher in this position will assist both projects in a variety of education driven capacities.

The Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Training Network (ITN (itcrtraining.org) is a collaborative effort of researchers around the United States to support cancer informatics and data science training through resources, technology, and events. Our courses feature tools developed by ITCR Investigators to make it easier for researchers to integrate cancer informatics into their workflows. We aim to reduce the gap between ITCR tool developers and users.

AnVIL is NHGRI's Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-Space. The traditional model of genomic data sharing - centralized data warehouses, such as dbGaP from which researchers download data to analyze locally - is increasingly unsustainable. Not only are transfer/download costs prohibitive, but this approach also leads to redundant, siloed compute infrastructure and makes ensuring security and compliance of protected data highly problematic.

The NHGRI Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-Space, or AnVIL, inverts the traditional model, providing a cloud environment for the analysis of large genomic and related datasets. By providing a unified environment for data management and compute, AnVIL eliminates the need for data movement, allows for active threat detection and monitoring, and provides elastic, shared computing resources that can be acquired by researchers as needed.

Specifically, the postdoc will have the following duties:

• Help maintain already existing online informatics training courses and curricula.
• Teach short form informatics training workshops for researchers. This often will involve travel.
• Help write, develop, and edit new training curriculum and courses.
• Review currently existing courses and material.
• Collaborate with internal and external investigators and students to create training materials.
• Coordinate with collaborators, hosts, and Hutch administrative staff to arrange the details and implementation of training events.
• Identify and document software bugs with the education related software used for creating courses. https://www.ottrproject.org/
• Use existing education technology tools to create and maintain educational videos that mirror the content. https://loqui.fredhutch.org/

Qualifications

Required:

• A PhD in biostatistics, statistics, computer science, machine learning, or another statistical or computational discipline
• Creative, thoughtful, and a communicative collaborator
• Familiarity with R, R packages, and RMarkdown
• Experience with version control using GitHub
• A willingness to learn and teach new informatics content
• Experience and interest in data science or informatics education
• A careful writer and diligent editor
• Excited to contribute to an important goal
• Willingness and ability to travel, potentially on a monthly basis

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

If you are interested in this position, please submit the following materials:

• A CV summarizing your education and work experience
• The names and email addresses of two references
• Two publications or preprints featuring your work
• A sample of education material that you have written, ideally about data science or bioinformatics.
• A code sample representing code that you are proud of. Ideally this would be present as a commit to a code repository such as GitHub, but emailed code is fine as well.

A statement describing your commitment and contributions toward greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in your career or that will be made through your work at Fred Hutch is requested of all finalists.

The annual base salary range for this position is from $65,484 to $100,000 and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, income-based child care subsidy, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (22 days per year), paid sick leave (up to 30 calendar days per occurrence of a qualifying reason), paid holidays (13 days per year), and paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).

Our Commitment to Diversity