Bioinformatics Scientist

Job title:

Bioinformatics Scientist

Company

Job description

cfdx is building the world’s first AI precision neuroscience company. We are at the start of our journey, first tackling the hardest problem in the space: understanding the basis of neurodegeneration. We will be developing novel diagnostics and target discovery platforms to impact the lives of hundreds of millions globally.Now venture-backed with leading funds in Europe and the US, we are building the founding team. We are value-driven and committed to curating an environment that will foster the world’s best AI and neuroscience research team.Key Responsibilities:

• As an early-stage startup you will be taking ownership of “dry-lab” operations, including:
• Research and marker discovery related to neurological diseases
• Feature engineering for machine learning pipelines
• Providing domain knowledge for multi-omic large biological foundation models (LLMs)
• QC and data analysis
• NGS bioinformatics pipeline development (scaling up to 1000s of samples)
• Cloud infrastructure and core software engineering

Qualifications:

• First-hand experience with generating biological insights from genomics/epigenetics/transcriptomics data, including the end-to-end bioinformatics tools used to process sequencing data from raw reads all the way to analytical outputs
• Proven track-record of analysing high throughput NGS and multi-omics data in real-world context
• Hold a PhD or equivalent industry experience in bioinformatics, computational biology or a related field
• Expertise with statistical approaches applied to evaluating biological datasets.
• Good working knowledge of workflow managers, including but not limited to NextFlow.
• Good working knowledge with cloud computing environments, including but not limited to AWS.

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:52:29 GMT

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