Cancer Genomics Data Scientist

About this role

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Company: TESA Research Inc.

Location: Park City, UT (on-site/hybrid/remote)

Reports To: VP of Cancer Genomics

Employment Type: Full-Time

## About TESA Research

TESA Research Inc. is an early-stage research company developing proprietary computational and analytical approaches to advance the study and treatment of cancer. We are building a world-class team to translate genomic insight into actionable biological and therapeutic understanding.

## Position Summary

TESA Research is seeking a Cancer Genomics Data Scientist to identify, retrieve, and prepare genomic and clinical data from public and proprietary sources for use in TESA's proprietary software platform. This role works in close collaboration with the VP of Cancer Genomics and can draw on the software engineering team for platform-level support, but is expected to independently perform the core data identification, extraction, and transformation work that feeds the platform. This is a hands-on, detail-oriented role for someone who is comfortable working across public repositories, proprietary datasets, and internal tooling to get data analysis-ready.

## Key Responsibilities

• **Data Acquisition:** Identify and download relevant genomic and clinical datasets from public repositories (e.g., TCGA, GEO, cBioPortal, SRA, ICGC) and proprietary/licensed databases.
• **Data Preparation & Transformation:** Clean, curate, harmonize, and format genomic and clinical data so it is compatible with TESA's proprietary software platform, independently handling the majority of data transformation work.
• **Pipeline Execution:** Run and manage DNA and RNA analysis pipelines (e.g., alignment, variant calling, expression quantification) to generate processed datasets ready for downstream analysis.
• **Platform Loading & QC:** Load prepared datasets into TESA's platform, verify data integrity and formatting, and troubleshoot discrepancies before results are generated.
• **Scientific Collaboration:** Wo...