Principal Genomics & Bioinformatics Scientist — Cape Town

Placements24; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical aid + retirement contributions

Professional development opportunities

Cape Town facility

Job summary

Placements24 in Cape Town, Western Cape, invites a seasoned Principal Research Scientist in Genomics and Bioinformatics to lead large-scale studies and drive biomarker discovery.

You will design pipelines for WGS, exome, RNA-seq, integrate multi-omics data, mentor junior scientists, and contribute to grant writing and publications while staying at the forefront of sequencing technologies.

Qualifications

• PhD required in a quantitative field (Bioinformatics, Genomics, Computational Biology).
• 8+ years hands-on genomics data analysis and pipeline development.
• Proven skills with Python, R, Bash and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and execution of large-scale genomic studies (WGS, exome, RNA-seq).
• Develop bioinformatics pipelines for data processing, QC, variant calling, annotation.
• Analyze complex genomics datasets to identify disease genes and targets.
• Integrate genomics with proteomics/metabolomics and clinical data.
• Mentor junior scientists and contribute to grants/publications.

Skills

Python

R

Bash

Leadership

Project management

Communication

Genomics data analysis

Biostatistics

Education

PhD in Bioinformatics, Genomics, Computational Biology, or related field

Tools

GATK

STAR

DESeq2

FASTQ/BAM/VCF

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Placements24 in Cape Town, Western Cape, invites a seasoned Principal Research Scientist in Genomics and Bioinformatics to lead large-scale studies and drive biomarker discovery.

You will design pipelines for WGS, exome, RNA-seq, integrate multi-omics data, mentor junior scientists, and contribute to grant writing and publications while staying at the forefront of sequencing technologies.