Bioinformatician

Zifo

20h

About The Position

Zifo is hiring an experienced Bioinformatician with a Scientific Informatics background. Someone that can build scientific relationships, understand industry challenges and shape our Bioinformatics Solutions, working in collaboration with our global Bioinformatics, Cloud and Data Science teams. Our customers are accelerating their Scientific Informatics and Digital Transformation to accelerate the discovery and manufacturing of new Therapeutics, Drugs and Vaccines to save lives Faster! Consequently, we are rapidly growing and looking to expand our Bioinformatics team in North America. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Global Bioinformatics Team to help leading Pharmaceutical and Biotech customers deploy and support cutting edge Bioinformatics Solutions and Technology globally. You will be responsible for deploying solutions that play a critical role in the early-stage optimization and development of assays by supporting analysis and interpretation of data for large biotech/pharma and other ‘Omics focused companies. By leading solution deployments for your customers, you engage, consult, design and implement global Bioinformatics Solutions that establish industry-leading Bioinformatics, Omics and Technology practices that are robust and scalable.

Requirements

PhD or PostDoc in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics
Therapeutic Area.
Knowledge and understanding of public databases & tools (GEO, TCGA, OpenTargets et al), applications in drug discovery, analysis and integration of multi-omics & biobank data
Ability to correlate results, generate hypothesis and scientific insights for applications in biomarker identification, indication selection and patient stratification

Nice To Haves

Background in Oncology, Immunology, Neuroscience is a plus
Experience with biological foundation models, including fine-tuning and application of models such as scGPT, and other transformer-based or generative models for single-cell and multi-omics data, is highly desirable

Responsibilities

Understand current and emergent Bioinformatics problems, needs, requirements analysis, and design.
Engage the market and the genetics/-omics’ community to develop, commercialize, and expand our bioinformatics and multi-omics services taking input from customers, literature and conferences.
Deliver timely, scalable NGS and ‘omics solutions (e.g. genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, epigenomics, microbiome, metabolomics, single-cell and spatial omics and proteomics).
Apply molecular techniques, bioinformatics pipelines, relational data systems, and statistical analysis to generate biological insights using internal and external data sets, published literature, and other resources to accelerate biomarker discoveries.
Deliver robust, in-depth, and state-of-the-art analysis pipelines.
Integrate AI-driven approaches into bioinformatics workflows, including the use and fine-tuning of biological foundation models (e.g. scGPT and similar models) to enhance interpretation of multi-omics data.
Manage multiple projects simultaneously and complete analyses in a timely and reliable manner.
Research, assess, recommend, and integrate Bioinformatics Technology platforms.
Help customers estimate, plan, and prioritize Bioinformatics Technology implementation.
Be hands-on involved in critical bioinformatics program delivery.