Bioinformatics Analyst

The ETH Zurich core facility NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies enables discovery and translational research for personalized health. We offer a broad range of expertise, from software engineering and biomedical data management to lab automation and screening services. Embedded in this multi-disciplinary team, the clinical bioinformatics group applies expertise in bioinformatics and statistics to the advancement of biomedical research and clinical applications.

We are recruiting a Bioinformatics Analyst for the Clinical Bioinformatics Group of NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies in Basel, to commence immediately or by mutual agreement.

The primary focus of your position will be

• the project-tailored analyses of diverse high-throughput data sets, covering a broad spectrum of data types from whole-genome variant calling up until single-cell sequencing analysis
• the development and testing of analysis pipelines and software packages
• the extension of existing workflows

The projects are typically in a biomedical research or clinical diagnostics setting, and their scope can be very wide, ranging from basic NGS analyses to clinical reporting. In that respect, NEXUS collaborates with various academic institutions and hospitals.

We are looking for a motivated and diligent colleague who likes to exchange with others and who is interested in clinical science and translational research.

The position requires

• MSc in bioinformatics, computational biology, or a related field
• proven experience in biomedical, genomics, or integrative research projects involving molecular data sets
• familiarity with large-scale genomics/transcriptomics data
• solid programming skills in Python or R
• excellent communication skills in English

Advantageous are

• experience in statistics or software development
• familiarity in HPC usage and Bash
• experience in version control
• experience in workflow management systems
• knowledge of German

At NEXUS we value knowledge exchange and working together as a team, where everyone brings in their own expertise. As a small group we have flat hierarchies, and we offer flexible working hours and family-friendly working models. We provide training opportunities and a broad and exciting field of work, at the cutting edge of translational research.