Bioinformatics Analyst

Department

Compensation

• The target annual hiring range is $85,000 to $110,000.
• Offered salary depends on education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and market alignment.

Job Summary

Strategic Planning

• Design studies with faculty involving rehabilitation interventions, gait and biomechanics, imaging, electromechanical devices, pain and osteoarthritis trials, and functional outcomes.
• Develop analytic plans, statistical analysis plans, and support IRB and protocol submissions.
• Perform sample size and power calculations for trials, observational studies, pilot studies, and device evaluations.
• Advise on methods for repeated-measures outcomes, biomechanics metrics, and clinically meaningful changes.
• Coordinate integration of clinical, biomechanical, wearable, device, and patient-reported data.
• Clean data, perform quality checks, and prepare analysis-ready datasets.
• Guide missing-data handling, longitudinal data structures, and harmonization across multi-site studies.

Administration and Development

• Review reports for quality and accuracy before presentation.
• Maintain quality assurance and reporting methodology documentation.
• Develop standards, best practices, queries, and quality metrics.
• Interpret results using statistical aggregation and complex analysis techniques.
• Determine data structures for local datasets.
• Develop and document standards for data quality and regulatory compliance.

Supervision

• Provide work direction or supervise staff, contractors, vendors, students, and other team members.
• Recommend staff hires or terminations and coach and mentor staff.
• Manage projects to ensure timelines and deliverables meet expectations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Epidemiology, Data Science, or a related field.
• Proficiency with R or SAS, with R preferred; Python or MATLAB familiarity is a plus.
• Strong foundation in study design, mixed-effects models, longitudinal data, and clinical trial methodology.
• Experience managing complex clinical or rehabilitation research datasets.
• Ability to collaborate with clinicians, engineers, and research staff and manage multiple projects.
• Commitment to reproducible research and version-controlled workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in medical rehabilitation or physical medicine research.
• Experience with wearables, sensors, exoskeletons, or motion capture systems.
• Prior involvement in multi-site or industry-sponsored clinical trials.
• Experience contributing to peer-reviewed manuscripts and abstracts.