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SENIOR DATABASE ARCHITECT/MySQL DBA

We are looking for a hands-on person who will work very closely with the engineering team and be responsible for architecting our database tier. The person will also support day-to-day operational production database issues. We deal with large amounts of data and the person should be proficient in query optimization, schema design, and ideal MySQL deployment architectures. The candidate must have strong analytical and communication skills. Experience with all areas of MySQL database administration on a medium to large scale MySQL installation implementations is a must.

Essential Job Duties:

To help architect the database tier. Work with the development teams for logical and physical database design and provide architectural support.
Need to be proficient with MySQL replication, Master / Slave, Master / Master, CDP.
Familiarity with database architecture design, including data partitioning and application partitioning.
Must be expert with query optimization tools, query plan analysis, and techniques for finding inefficient queries.
Participate in query optimization and finding inefficient queries.
To review, maintain, build, support, tune and monitor production MySQL databases.
Design, implement, and tune database archival mechanisms.
Experience with Linux HA cluster is a plus.
Experience with PERL scripting, Stored procedures, functions and triggers.

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SOFTWARE INTERN

An exciting summer internship position at an fun and fast paced startup. A great opportunity for someone to come in and contribute directly to the development of various applications at NextBio. This is an excellent chance to work with a great software development team and learn some cutting edge technologies.

We are looking for a currently enrolled BS CS student someone who has completed at least 2 years of coursework with proficiency in at least one language like Java or PHP. The intern is expected to learn quickly and will take on one or more software application development and related projects. A senior member of the development team will guide you and help you in the success of your projects.

The candidate:

Must be familiar with Windows and Linux development environments
Must be have the basic knowledge of web based database driven applications
Must have working knowledge or HTML, Javascript, CSS, SQL and a language like Java or PHP
Preferred - Java Enterprise Edition and Java web application development frameworks based on technologies like Servlet, JSP, JDBC etc

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SENIOR ENTERPRISE SALES REPRESENTATIVE

We are seeking an experienced enterprise account manager to join our growing sales team. In this role, you will find and develop business within multi-site, international accounts as well as medium size pharma and biotech accounts. The customer base includes research scientists, bio-informaticians, and information technology persons across all levels of a customer's organization. This is a very exciting and rewarding opportunity for someone with experience managing complex, high-dollar scientific software deals. The ideal candidate will reside in the Northeastern US. Expected travel will average 50%.

Responsibilities:

The enterprise account manager will be responsible for building a customer base of NextBio users within a handful of global pharmaceutical and biotechnology accounts as well as a number of medium-sized accounts. Other members of the NextBio team (including marketing, software development, and field application scientists) will work closely with you to ensure that you have the resources you and our customers need to be successful. You will develop and execute sales and account plans to ensure you meet the required sales goals. The account manager will work with multiple groups within an account to uncover potential sales opportunities, and move these from an evaluation phase through to enterprise-wide licensing deals.

Qualifications:

Accomplished sales representative with 5+ years selling scientific software or solutions to major pharmaceutical and biotech accounts
Track record of consistently exceeding sales quotas and growing business
B.S. or higher degree in biological sciences
Expertise managing and closing complex, high-dollar, business deals
Ability to uncover and develop sales opportunities throughout a territory
Capable of working effectively with biologists, chemists, informaticians, and information technology personnel at all levels within an account
Desire to become a major contributor to the growth and success of a dynamic software company

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SENIOR BIOINFORMATICS SCIENTIST

We are looking for a highly motiviated bioinformatics scientist with extensive prior experience of working in pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies. Particularly, we are looking for candidates with background in the design and development of applications for the analysis and management of diverse types of high throughput research data. We are looking for individuals who understand the scientific and technical challenges of biological data integration, have strong technical skills and the ability to handle diverse tasks and projects.

Requirements:

Advanced degree in biological or computational science
5+ years of bioinformatics and software development experience
Experience with Java, Perl, HTML, Oracle, MySQL, algorithm development

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FIELD APPLICATION SCIENTIST

NextBio seeks a Field Application Scientist for Cupertino, California.

Requires:

Ph.D, or foreign equivalent in medicine, genetics, molecular biology or a related field and 2 years closely related experience.

Please email resumes referencing Job code 70 to fasjob@nextbio.com, or fax to the attention of Jennifer Zhang at 408-861-3630. Only applicants with unrestricted US work authorization will be considered.