Remote Genomics Data Scientist – Bioinformatics Hub

Placements24; Durban; Hybrid; ZAR 2,030,000 - 3,046,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive salary

Professional development

Global team

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Remote Genomics Data Scientist to join a pioneering bioinformatics hub. You will analyze large-scale genomic data, build robust pipelines, and apply ML to uncover biological insights, contributing to therapeutic development from a home office.

The role requires advanced degrees in genomics or bioinformatics and 5+ years of hands-on experience with NGS tools. Collaboration with scientists across time zones is essential.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in bioinformatics or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on genomic data analysis.
• Proficiency in Python or R and bioinformatics libraries.
• Experience with NGS data analysis tools and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large-scale NGS data (whole-genome, exome, transcriptome).
• Develop and validate bioinformatics pipelines and algorithms.
• Apply statistics and ML to find meaningful genomic patterns.
• Collaborate with geneticists, biologists and clinicians on research questions.
• Design computational experiments to test hypotheses on gene function and disease.
• Visualize complex data and present findings clearly to diverse audiences.
• Contribute to new bioinformatics tools and software development.
• Keep up-to-date with genomics and computational biology advances.

Skills

Python

R

Statistical analysis

Machine learning

Remote collaboration

Education

PhD in Genomics

Master's in Bioinformatics

Tools

Biopython

SciPy

Pandas

BWA

GATK

Samtools

STAR

DESeq2

Docker

Singularity

Matplotlib

Tableau

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Remote Genomics Data Scientist to join a pioneering bioinformatics hub. You will analyze large-scale genomic data, build robust pipelines, and apply ML to uncover biological insights, contributing to therapeutic development from a home office.

The role requires advanced degrees in genomics or bioinformatics and 5+ years of hands-on experience with NGS tools. Collaboration with scientists across time zones is essential.