Bioinformatic Software Engineer

Description of the company:
TIGERQ has developed the first successful unified variant frequency analysis between SNPs, small indels, and structural variants in a single algorithm. This discovery paves the way for batter variant discovery and superior frequency assessment in the clinical setting. As a result, TIGERQ is developing a world leading approach for clinical mutational analysis that already today surpassed the top established workflows worldwide, with drastic differences in discovery and accuracy. As part of the deployment of this development TIGERQ provides NGS analysis solutions, as well as integrated full-service sequencing pipelines. As a company we strive to meet our clients’ needs, with an unprecedented value offer. It is our goal - to accelerate biomedical innovation, with the mission of providing immediate-access, fast turnaround, and high-quality NGS analysis solutions - with the outmost emphasis on analytical accuracy!

Description of position:
The Bioinformatic Software Engineer position is meant to accelerate the development and deployment of TIGERQ clinically oriented analysis, with a second focus on NGS analysis pipeline management. The Bioinformatic Software Engineer will work to push forward, validate, and optimize the generalized TIGERQ whole genome sequencing analysis as well as managing a number of distinct NGS pipelines for running analysis services (WGS, RNAseq, ChIPseq). As part of our startup acceleration team the Bioinformatic Software Engineer will work closely with marketing, sales and production scientists to give key insight into the complexities and opportunities of current state-of-the-art NGS workflows.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Use TIGERQ principles to develop, validate, and optimize our proprietary WGS analysis in preparation for translational testing and implementation.
Develop and adopt computational pipelines for key NGS applications as part of TIGERQ services on cloud based HPC framework.
Communicate with users, consultants, and web development team to push quality development of analysis pipelines.
Analyze sequenced TIGERQ samples with current and future pipelines using HPC framework.
Prepare and give presentations on current analysis products and R&D progress.
Collaborate with sales and marketing team to develop marketing materials and sales strategies.
Take part in a flexible and dynamic startup working environment.


Qualifications:
PhD or MS in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology or a related field.
Important – more than 6 years of post-graduate computational work experience.
Important - Robust experience in Python programming and demonstrated experience in other programming/scripting languages: R, Bash, Matlab. There will be a critical programming focus for this position.
Important - deep understanding of NGS variant calling methods, with accompanying statistical calculations.
Important - Experience designing and developing research and/or production grade bioinformatics tools and pipelines for NGS applications.
Hands-on experience with genome alignment, mapping, variant calling, and annotation (e.g. BWA, Bowtie, STAR, GATK, samtools, SV callers).
Hands-on experience with bioinformatics methods appropriate for NGS applications (targeted sequencing, RNAseq, ChIPseq, and de novo genome assembly).
Experience with Azure Cloud infrastructure preferred
Experience working in an entrepreneurial environment preferred.
Fluent in English, with Swedish as a plus. Nearly all communication will be in English.


Skills:
High emphasis on self-motivation, integrity, independence, work schedule management, work planning, and problem solving.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to effectively collaborate with other team members and cross discipline functionalities.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Excellent organizational skills, prioritization, and attention to details.
Ability to learn as part of a rapidly developing product/service portfolio.
Understanding the startup culture, through active engagement, lean performance, and iterative milestones.
Professionalism and ability to work as a team, to collaborate across duties and responsibilities to provide a healthy working environment and optimal performance.



Our offer
We offer a competitive full time 1-year contract position, with an option for permanent position based on job performance. Globally, within the company this is a leadership position with key opportunities for development. As such, this position is a springboard for professional acceleration and broad-base experiences in a high growth, dynamic, startup environment. Specifically, candidates are in position to drive the leadership and structure of upcoming bioinformatic team expansion.

How to apply
Please send your CV and cover letter by email to contact@tigerq.com

*Contact from recruitment companies is not desired.