Amazon.com is looking for a Research Scientist – Search in Seattle, WA. The description of the ideal candidate states, “You’re a scientist looking for a career where you’ll be able to lead, to deliver, and to influence. You look at problems holistically, and thrive on the intricate complexity of designing multi-factor experiments and analyzing large quantities of data. You want to work on projects where you are implementing creative solutions to real problems and develop deep understanding of the problem space. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better solutions. You’re a thought leader, and you back up your ideas with data. You want to create value and impact the direction of entire industries.” Read more

Lilly Research Labs is looking for a Research Scientist – Information Technology in Indianapolis, IN. The post states, “LRL IT provides the Lilly Research Labs (LRL) community with advanced software and data solutions, informatics capabilities and analytic support. The informatics group partners with scientists throughout the company to leverage advanced informatics, provide insights and contribute to the advancement of Lilly’s future medicines. The successful candidate for this role will: Develop and apply systems biology approaches to support target identification, patient tailoring, mechanistic characterization or compound repositioning efforts. Integrate data from public and internal resources for analysis of results from ‘omics experiments. Represent LRL IT informatics on cross-functional teams, and effectively collaborate with other groups in biology, chemistry, statistics and patient tailoring. Identify and implement new technologies / capabilities.” Read more

Eli Lilly is looking for a Research Scientist in Indianapolis, IN. The post states, “The successful candidate for this role will: Develop and apply systems biology approaches to support target identification, patient tailoring, mechanistic characterization or compound repositioning efforts. Integrate data from public and internal resourcesfor analysis of results from ‘omics experiments. Represent LRL IT informatics on cross-functional teams, and effectively collaborate with other groups in biology, chemistry, statistics and patient tailoring. Identify and implement new technologies / capabilities.” Read more

IBM’s new Smarter Cities Technology Centre (SCTC) at the Dublin Research Laboratory in Ireland has several job openings in the semantic web space. One opening is for a Researcher: “We are researching novel ways to enable citizens, services, and service providers to interact coherently in a smarter city. We are creating and leveraging Social Media and Web 2.0 software tools that help to capture, organize and benefit from the wealth of city data being generated by urban and environmental sensors, including citizen-contributed data.” Read more