Bioinformatics Engineer (Remote: EU or UK)
Seqera Labs
This job is no longer accepting applications
See open jobs at Seqera Labs.See open jobs similar to "Bioinformatics Engineer (Remote: EU or UK)" Speedinvest.London, UK
Posted 6+ months ago
*Please Note that LinkedIn requires us to list a specific location. This is a full-time position - Senior level.#LI-Remote: Europe or United Kingdom (UTC+1 or UTC+2 Time zones)
Do you want to make meaningful contributions and grow your career at a company with a greater purpose? Join Seqera Labs, and help us develop pipelines at the home of Nextflow! Our Scientific Development team seeks a dynamic and motivated Bioinformatics Engineer to support clients throughout their Nextflow Tower journey. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in the development of Nextflow pipelines for the analysis of biological data, including Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data.
If you’re passionate about learning and not afraid of new challenges, then this is the job for you.
About the role
As a Bioinformatics Engineer, you will have the opportunity to build your skillset as you engage clients across a variety of technical fields. Build pipelines to process cutting-edge biological data and to help our clients deploy these pipelines using high performance batch computing, cloud storage, virtual private networks, and modern identity systems.
Your mission will be to:
- Help develop best-practices for Nextflow workflows.
- Create robust and reproducible scientific workflows using Nextflow.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain pipelines in Nextflow Tower - making them available to customers to analyze and visualize data.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain cloud data infrastructures capable of processing data related to next-generation sequencing (NGS), imaging analysis, machine learning and related large datasets.
- Understand the biological application and scientific needs underlying relevant scientific workflows.
- Summarize methods and communicate findings to diverse audiences, which may include: R&D scientists, customers, marketing teams, IP/regulatory teams, and upper management.
- Engage with customers on requirements, developing project deliverables and coordinating the execution of projects.
- Train customers to use Nextflow Tower.
- Provide professional bioinformatics services including NGS analysis, data harmonization, curation and custom pipeline development, etc.
- Consult with biotech and pharma professionals across multiple remits.
- Collaborate internally with content, research, and software development teams.
- Collaborate with multiple internal groups on cross-functional projects.
- Create presentations and provide written and verbal updates on scientific findings.
We are looking for someone with:
- Strong knowledge of the Nextflow language and the pipeline development approaches adopted by nf-core.
- Experience with programming in commonly used languages such as Groovy, Python and R.
- Ability to effectively communicate and clearly explain technology to different audiences, through code, writing, presentations and demos.
- Familiarity with using Git or other version control systems.
- Significant experience with Linux command line tools and shell scripting.
- In-depth experience with NGS analysis pipelines and algorithms for a variety of ‘omics’ data types, such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics etc.
- Experience with HPC and public cloud (AWS, Google, Azure) architectures and a willingness to learn more.
- A customer-oriented attitude, someone who enjoys working with others and helping find solutions.
Nice-to-have
- Degree / PhD in bioinformatics or a relevant field
- 4+ years experience relevant to scientific workflows and software development
- Proficiency in one or more common programming languages including Python, R or Java.
- Experience with orchestrated, and maintained data infrastructures and scalable pipelines for large datasets
- Solid track record of research in cancer, biomedical, or related areas as demonstrated by publications
Your unique set of skills are:
- Self-motivated and a proactive thinker – can work independently and in teams
- Great interpersonal and communication skills.
- Critical thinker and problem-solving skills.
- An eye for detail and well organized.
- Creativity & curiosity across all solutions given to clients.
This job is no longer accepting applications
See open jobs at Seqera Labs.See open jobs similar to "Bioinformatics Engineer (Remote: EU or UK)" Speedinvest.
