Bioinformatician (Bioinformatic Product Development)

Would you like to be part of a dynamic and exciting team delivering technical expertise that has a direct impact on the lives of cancer and rare disease patients worldwide? Join our growing team and use your exceptional technical and organizational skills to help us deliver on our mission of democratizing Data-Driven Medicine. Our products are used by over a thousand healthcare institutions globally and provide world leading capabilities for the analysis of genomic, clinical, and imaging data.

As we further our mission to democratize data-driven medicine worldwide, we are looking for a Bioinformatician / Technical Product Manager to join our growing Pipeline Development team in Rolle, Switzerland.

Your main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Creating, optimizing, and maintaining analysis pipelines for detection of genomic alterations
• Performing exploratory analyses to assess and improve the analytical and technical performance of our pipelines.
• Driving projects aimed at improving the efficiency of the team development activities by optimizing the existing processes or establishing new ones
• Working closely with the quality assurance and engineering teams to guarantee that new processes are compatible with the clinical and technical requirements of our products
• Leading the efforts of the team aimed at documenting the architecture of our pipelines
• Acting as main point of contact between our team and the engineering teams for the monitoring and optimization of the technical performance of our pipelines

Requirements

• PhD or PostDoc experience in bioinformatics and NGS data analysis
• Capacity to combine leadership, autonomy, creativity and good communication skills in order to solve problems and coordinate the execution of a project with input from different parties
• Capacity to work in a fast-paced multidisciplinary and multicultural environment
• Fluency in bash, R and Python
• Proven track record of working with high performance computing clusters, bioinformatic analysis pipelines, version control systems, and parallel computing
• Solid knowledge of best practices for software development and testing
• Experience in variant calling and human genomics/genetics is desirable but not mandatory

Benefits

• Flexible hours and possibility to work from home
• A stimulating technical environment (cloud computing, AI, Big Data, CI, CD, ...);
• Permanent exchanges with teams of experts within the company (computer science, genomics, medicine, etc.);
• International, young and multicultural working environment

Starting date: ASAP (or to be decided)

Contract type: Permanent full-time

Application process

If you think you fit this position, please send a CV and a cover letter. Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.

After an initial screening process, candidates will be invited for remote interviews. Selected candidates will then be invited for personal interviews.