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Senior/Principal Bioinformatician

Employer
Barrington James
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire (GB)
Salary
Negotiable
Start date
22 Jun 2021
Closing date
22 Jul 2021

Job Details

I am supporting a privately-owned platform technology company with the vision of decoding immune repertoires for health and disease. They are driven by developing data science centred models of prediction which are verified by and respond to molecular biological analysis.

They are now looking for a Principal Bioinformatician to work on clinical data derived from Immune Oncology trials as part of our growing team.

Responsibilities and duties:

Typical tasks would include; running and developing computational pipelines to describe TCR diversity from single-cell analysis, analysing WGS and WES data to describe potential neo-antigen targets. Designing experiments and creatively determining the most effective way to verify predictions from our machine learning platforms. Liaising with customers and partners explaining analysis and contributing to determining the most effective analytical choices to make.

 

Key skills and personal attributes:

• Thorough understanding of modern molecular biological techniques. In particular NGS sequencing and 10x single cell methods.

• Good understanding of statistics.

• Skilled in the construction of bioinformatics pipelines.

• Good Experience of R programming.

• Good familiarity with Linux systems.

• Track record of delivery either within academia or industry.

• An excellent and entrepreneurial understanding of modern biology especially the interaction of immunology within Oncology/Infectious Disease/AutoImmune Disease.

• Ability to work in a close knit team of specialists within a dynamic startup

Desirable to have:

• Python

• Application of machine learning to biological experimental data

• Experience of version control systems and programming in an AGILE environment

• Snakemake, docker, experience of AWS/HPC.

Necessary Experience:

• Application of the key skills creatively within the Biotech Industry or Academic labs.

Company

We’re great at what we do. A collection of the worlds finest Life Science recruiters working for the worlds best Life Science consultancy.

Originally, a purely contingency and contract recruiter, focused in the UK, Barrington James is now a sophisticated, highly effective provider of human resources solutions up to full RPO, partnering the pharma, medical devices, and healthcare industries right across the globe.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01293 776644
Location
Victoria House
Consort Way
Horley
Surrey
RH6 7AF
GB

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