Remote Lead Computational Genomics Scientist

Placements24; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Remote-first culture

Professional development

Conferences access

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a visionary Lead Computational Biologist to drive genomics analysis from a remote setting in South Africa. You will lead development of scalable WGS/WES/RNA-Seq pipelines, perform statistical analyses, and translate results into actionable hypotheses while mentoring a distributed team.

Working with colleagues across digital platforms, you will shape experimental design, collaborate with clinicians, and contribute to grants and proposals.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or equivalent in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, CS, Statistics, or related field.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in computational biology or bioinformatics with a genomics focus.
• Experience building genomics pipelines with Python, R, Bash, Snakemake, Nextflow.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Singularity).
• Strong statistics knowledge and machine learning applications to biology.
• Excellent communication and remote collaboration skills.
• Experience with Git and version control.

Responsibilities

• Develop, optimize, and maintain pipelines for processing large-scale genomics datasets (WGS, WES, RNA-Seq).
• Perform statistical analysis and interpretation of genomic variation and gene expression data.
• Collaborate with experimental biologists and clinicians to design experiments.
• Develop and implement ML models for biological data analysis and prediction.
• Manage and curate genomic databases and ensure data integrity.
• Stay current with advancements in bioinformatics and genomics technologies.
• Present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor junior computational biologists and data scientists in the remote team.
• Contribute to research proposals and grant applications.

Skills

Excellent communication

Remote work leadership

Independent work

Education

Ph.D. or equivalent in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, CS, Statistics, or related field

Tools

Python

R

Bash

Snakemake

Nextflow

Docker

Singularity

Git

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a visionary Lead Computational Biologist to drive genomics analysis from a remote setting in South Africa. You will lead development of scalable WGS/WES/RNA-Seq pipelines, perform statistical analyses, and translate results into actionable hypotheses while mentoring a distributed team.

Working with colleagues across digital platforms, you will shape experimental design, collaborate with clinicians, and contribute to grants and proposals.