Position title: Data Scientist / Bioinformatician

Employer: Hartwig Medical Foundation Australia

Closing date: 28/01/2023

Brief position description: What do you do as a Data Scientist / Bioinformatician at Hartwig Medical Foundation Australia?

As a Data Scientist / Bioinformatician at Hartwig Medical Foundation Australia, you will be responsible for the design, testing and integration into pipeline workflows of novel algorithms for processing whole transcriptome and whole genome data of patient samples. Our software takes raw sequencing data as input and produces a comprehensive molecular profile of each tumor, and then annotates and interprets the data to provide the best possible treatment recommendation to each patient. Your contribution will play an important role in optimizing the impact that our data, analyses and conclusions have on patients.

Furthermore, you will have access to Hartwig’s database of >6,000 cancer genomes and suite of analysis tools with opportunities to make novel contributions and observations and publish if desired.

What you’ll be doing

- Working closely with software engineers and cancer researchers to develop cutting edge algorithms for analyzing RNA and DNA sequencing data
- Leveraging Hartwig’s tools and database to help explore, discover and validate new insights in tumor biology and treatment
- Working with our many collaborators and users of our tools to help integrate our tools into research and clinical pipelines
- Improving productivity and scalability of our internal processes, engineering and analyses via automation and simplification

This is us

Hartwig Medical Foundation Australia is an innovative not for profit organization that wants to ensure that every patient with cancer receives the best possible treatment and care. We are a small team of software engineers and data scientists with a strong expertise in software engineering, genomics and cancer biology.

Our vision is to make whole genome (WGS) and whole transcriptome (WTS) based testing available to every cancer patient in Australia to guide their treatment. We aim to do this both by creating novel algorithms to identify new biomarkers and improve the utility of WGS/WTS, and by applying best software engineering practices to simplify, automate and drive down the cost of analysis and reporting.

Together with our partner organization Hartwig Medical Foundation in the Netherlands, we also develop and maintain the world’s largest publicly available database of whole cancer genomes and transcriptomes. We closely collaborate with leading cancer translational research organizations here in Australia and around the world who use both our database and our open-source software.

More information about the organization and activities can be found on hartwigmedicalfoundation.nl.

Job website: https://www.hartwigmedicalfoundation.nl/en/vacancies-australia/

Contact name: Peter Priestley

Contact email: info@hartwigmedicalfoundation.nl