Bioinformatician

About our client

Our client is on the cutting edge of the biotechnology revolution. Based in London, UK, they have a diverse team spanning Europe and North America, with each person empowered and involved in every aspect of the business.
Here’s your chance to lead, to design, to own. To create.

Their team is looking for a bioinformatician to join their team in Singapore. If you’re committed and passionate about open source, bioinformatics, big data, Machine Learning, and AI, we want to hear from you today.

Position overview

We’re open source pioneers, innovators changing the world. Our driving mission: to revolutionise bioinformatics and biomedical data analysis forever. Because while we know our technology is unmatched, we also know we can keep making it greater. That’s why we need more superstars like you – to help take us to incredible new heights. (Plus, we’ve got some really big plans afoot…)

Focus areas

• Build required pipelines for batch analysis
• Build and understand bioinformatics pipelines and monitoring
• Provide upgrades, patches and maintenance of pipelines
• Provide professional bioinformatics customer support assistance
• Provide best practices support on building customer bioinformatics solutions
• Engage with our clients and keep them excited about our products and services
• Gather insights and experiences from every project and client to feed it to the rest of the team
• Help and train team members and collaborators working with our products and services
• Keep up to date with best practices and latest developments in bioinformatics data analysis areas

Experience

We are looking for pioneering Bioinformaticians to join our team today. Please view these role requirements as just an indication of what we’re looking for – sometimes the perfect candidate is far more or less experienced than we anticipated. If you think that might be your case, please reach out and let us know!

Please include a link to your Github account or a sample of some of your relevant code (if your repositories are private) in a cover letter. Only candidates who provide this code will be considered for this opportunity.

You have demonstrable knowledge and experience in bioinformatics, specifically, you have experience in:

• 1+ years experience creating complex workflows/pipelines with many process to analysis large scale NGS data (ie. >10.000 genomes) with Nextflow
• Or 2+ years experience working with Python library and/or R package development
• Or extensive experience in building Open Source Tools/Frameworks
• Using workflow containers, including Docker and Singularity
• Running workflows over HPC
• Cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure
• Data analysis building dashboards with Jupyter Notebooks, RmarkdownsCreating interactive applications either through Flask, R Shiny or similar frameworks

Additionally, we are looking for candidates who:

• Have strong communication skills, both oral and written, with attention to detail
• Are able to organise and structure biomedical information and be outcome-oriented
• Have experience with population genetics, genome-wide association studies

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