Software engineer, data scientist, or bioinformatician to support personalised medicine research

MDxCore, Dept. of Clinical Biochemistry at Rigshospitalet is looking for a data scientist, bioinformatician, or software engineer to support research in personalised medicine. The main tasks will be data stewardship, research platform development, and data analysis tasks.

MDxCore holds a combined high-throughput DNA/RNA sequencing and bioinformatics platform that offers a wide range of genomic and transcriptomic analyses, including human whole-genome sequencing.

For this position, we are looking for a person with strong competence in data management. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining workflows for data analyses and providing bioinformatics support to clinical departments, and for developing and maintaining systems that support the complete journey from patient sample to diagnostics. Accordingly, responsibilities will range from making daily surveillance of automated data analyses workflows, designing and building dataflow back-ends, and minor contributions to research within genomic medicine.

You will be part of a team that works in full DevOps, and consists of 15 full-time colleagues from various technical backgrounds within computer science, bioinformatics, and software engineering. In the team, we also have three student assistants and a number of project and PhD students, and all projects are collaborative efforts.

We offer a stimulating environment where developers, medical doctors, biomedical analysts, and bioinformaticians work together to deliver high-quality precision medicine and research. Our work has direct implications for diagnosis of patients, leading to better treatment for a variety of rare and more common genetic diseases, infections, and cancer.

Qualifications:

• A degree in computer science, computational biology, bioinformatics, or similar.
• Proficient in general-purpose programming, ideally in Python. Proficient with Linux-based operating systems and shell scripting.
• Experience with design and usage of relational databases
• Experience with version control using Git
• PhD in bioinformatics, genomics, or clinical data science is a plus
• Proficiency in lower-level languages like C/C++ is a plus
• Fluency in English written and spoken
• Willingness to obtain Danish level A2
• You like to work in a team and are motivated by working in an interdisciplinary environment

Our work is primarily focused on processing and analysis of DNA and RNA sequencing data, and we are using SnakeMake for orchestration of a large variety of bioinformatics tools on an on-premise cloud infrastructure managed through Moab/Torque. Previous experience with this work, or aspects thereof, is a great advantage - just like scientific understanding of molecular biology.

Deadline for application is 6th of September at noon.

Salary and terms of employment are in accordance with the collective agreement for academics employed by the Danish regions.

The place of work is Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen.

For further information, contact Frederik Otzen Bagger (email: frederik.otzen.bagger@regionh.dk, + 45 2855 0628)

Lokation: Rigshospitalet