Senior Genomics Data Scientist | Hybrid (Cape Town)

Placements24; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Professional development opportunities

Hybrid work

Job summary

Placements24 in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Computational Biologist to lead analysis of large-scale genomic datasets, develop computational pipelines, and contribute to next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics.

The role emphasizes collaboration with experimental biologists, clinicians, and data scientists; it requires a PhD or MSc and 4–6 years in genomic data analysis, with Python/R/Bash coding and cloud/HPC experience.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• 4–6 years of hands-on experience in computational biology and bioinformatics, focusing on genomics data analysis.
• Proficiency in Python, R, Bash and related libraries; strong grasp of statistics and data mining.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement computational pipelines for analysis of genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic data.
• Perform in-depth statistical analysis and data mining to identify patterns and significant findings.
• Collaborate with scientists to design studies and interpret results.
• Write clean, reproducible code in Python/R/Bash and contribute to new algorithms.

Skills

Python

R

Bash

Machine Learning

Statistics

Education

PhD or MSc in Computational Biology/related field

Tools

Genome browsers

Variant callers

Sequence alignment tools

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Job description

Placements24 in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Computational Biologist to lead analysis of large-scale genomic datasets, develop computational pipelines, and contribute to next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics.

The role emphasizes collaboration with experimental biologists, clinicians, and data scientists; it requires a PhD or MSc and 4–6 years in genomic data analysis, with Python/R/Bash coding and cloud/HPC experience.