Research Data Scientist

Summary Please note, there is no pay associated with this position. This position serves as a Without Compensation Research Data Scientist within the Office of Research and Development (ORD). The VA Research Program strives to promote Veteran-centered care to improve patient experiences and outcomes across VA healthcare and community settings, and to advance value-driven care by providing Veterans the highest quality care at the lowest financial burden. Responsibilities Processing raw microbiome sequencing data using established bioinformatics pipelines Performing sequence quality control, taxonomic and functional profiling, and preparation of analysis-ready feature tables Conducting routine statistical summaries, including diversity calculations, simple comparisons between groups, and preliminary visualizations to support downstream modeling performed by senior team members Assisting with transferring, merging, and validating microbiome outputs within the secure VA computing environme...