Insmed EU Careers
Job title:
Senior Bioinformatic Scientist
Company
Insmed EU Careers
Job description
Company Description:Insmed is a global biopharmaceutical company on a mission to transform the lives of patients living with serious and rare diseases. Our most valuable resource is our employees, and everything we do is motivated by a patients-first mentality. We are dedicated to growing our team with talented individuals from around the world who are willing to challenge the status quo, solve problems, and work collaboratively with a sense of urgency and compassion.Guided by our core values of collaboration, accountability, passion, respect, and integrity, we aim to foster an inclusive, diverse, and flexible work environment, where our employees are recognized for leaning in and rolling up their sleeves. If you share our vision and want to work with the most dedicated people in the biopharma industry, come to Insmed to accelerate your career. Recognitions:One of the Best Places to Work in the UKAcross our global locations, we’re dedicated to making a meaningful impact on patients’ lives while building a positive and inclusive culture. In 2024, Insmed was listed as one of the Best Places to Work in the UK by The Sunday Times—a designation based on employees’ perceptions of reward and recognition, instilling pride, information sharing, empowerment, wellbeing, and job satisfaction.Named Science’s Top Employer in 2021, 2022, and 2023Insmed is dedicated to creating a collaborative environment where our team can thrive. Every day, our employees turn their passion for science and research into innovative solutions for patients. That’s why we were named the No. 1 company to work for in the biopharma industry in Science’s Top Employers Survey for two years in a row.A Certified Great Place to WorkWe believe our company is truly special, and our employees agree. In July 2024, we became Great Place to Work-certified in the U.S. for the fourth year in a row. We are also honored to have been listed on the Best Workplaces in Biopharma™, Best Workplaces in New York™, and Best Workplaces for Millennials™ lists.Summary: We are seeking a skilled and self-motivated individual with a keen interest in bioinformatics software development to contribute to pipeline and platform development across a range of projects and data types. This role will act to support the pursuit of scientific research from early-stage target discovery and validation to lead optimisation and candidate selection. In this role you will contribute to and lead efforts on developing tools, building analytical pipelines, and designing and delivering data infrastructure. This work will involve collaboration and contribution with a range of multidisciplinary teams, including biologists, chemists, human geneticists, platform developers and data scientists. A successful candidate will be a confident programmer with experience in the bioinformatic software development and pipeline deployment, including at least two years of industrial bioinformatic experience. Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities
- Be a contributor in a medium sized dynamic team, designing and maintaining critical bioinformatic tools and pipelines.
- Provide analytical and statistical rigour to empower better decision making during experimental design.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of a flexible bioinformatic web-ecosystem empowering our wet lab scientists and data scientists to get more out of their data.
- Engineer, optimize, and validate internal pipelines to be flexible, scalable, and configurable while maintaining production quality standards.
- The ability to organise and lead projects independently, including presenting project updates to key decision makers.
Position Requirements (Required and/or Preferred Skills, Experience and Education):Required:
- A PhD (or equivalent experience) in bioinformatics, biology, genetics, medicine, machine learning, statistics, computer science or a similar area.
- 2+ years in industry
- Experience coding collaboratively and using git as part of a larger collaborative project.
- Experience delivering production quality python code.
- Experience working with and analysing NGS data.
- Experience with a python testing framework (e.g. pytest, unittest, …etc.)
Desirable:
- Experience coding within a team
- UI/Ux experience
- Experience developing tools for drug discovery
- Experience working with Pydantic & SQL alchemy
- Experience interfacing with SQL databases – preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience coding in one of the following languages: R, javascript, Go, Rust, …etc. Javascript would be highly advantageous.
- Experience with Nextflow
- Familiarity with popular machine learning algorithms
- Knowledge of common genetic association methodologies (e.g., GWAS, gene burden)
- Experience developing tools within a cloud environment (gcloud, AWS, Azure, …etc,)
Position details:
- Onsite position (Cambridge, UK) – with possibility of hybrid work
Travel Requirements:N/A Compensation & Benefits:We’re committed to investing in every team member’s total well-being, now and in the future. We offer a competitive total-rewards package to all employees around the world. Additional Information:Insmed Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.Unsolicited resumes from agencies should not be forwarded to Insmed. Insmed will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes through this source. Insmed will only pay a fee to agencies if a formal agreement between Insmed and the agency has been established. The Human Resources department is responsible for all recruitment activities; please contact us directly to be considered for a formal agreement.Applications are accepted for 5 calendar days from the date posted or until the position is filled.
Expected salary
Location
Cambridgeshire
Job date
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 22:30:26 GMT
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