Advanced Bioinformatics Data Scientist

With over 35 nationalities and a range of backgrounds represented in our Benevolent team, we aim to build an inclusive environment where our people can bring their authentic selves to work, be respected for who they are and the exceptional work they do. We welcome and actively encourage applications from all sections of society and are committed to offering equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, disability, age, citizenship, or any other basis. We see our diversity as an asset as we tackle challenging problems that bridge the gap between drug discovery and technology.

The Role

The Informatics & Data team is focused on applying bioinformatics techniques to drug discovery and precision medicine. We are keen to hear from Bioinformaticians, with a passion and proven track record of integrating and analysing biomedical datasets, to join the growing Biomedical Informatics department. You will find yourself working as part of a cross-functional team supporting BenevolentAI’s data integration, target identification and precision medicine activities.

The Genomics, Genetics and Experimental data team (GGE) has established a robust and sustainable end to end (E2E) solution to simplify and streamline the capture, processing and analyses of Omics data at BenevolentAI. As a Bioinformatics Scientist in the team, you will contribute to the strategy by developing Omics data flows and working closely with experts who are involved in the generation, handling and consumption of such data.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Processing, integrating and analysing biomedical datasets for biological insights that lead to testable hypotheses relevant to Drug Discovery and Clinical Development programmes undertaken by BenevolentAI.
• Developing programmatic tools and workflows that automate the analysis of biomedical datasets
• Working as a member of a cross-functional team, that brings together the best in class Informatics, AI, Engineering, Drug Discovery and Product capabilities to tackle the scientific challenges BenevolentAI is looking to find solutions for

• Processing, integrating and analysing biomedical datasets for biological insights that lead to testable hypotheses relevant to Drug Discovery and Clinical Development programmes undertaken by BenevolentAI.
• Developing programmatic tools and workflows that automate the analysis of biomedical datasets and integrate them into the DNAnexus platform.

Additional Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Biomedical Informatics department you will be responsible for investigating, prototyping, and implementing new scientific capabilities and disseminating the latest Bioinformatics, Data Science and Computational Biology research trends and developments throughout the organisation.

We are looking for someone with:

• A PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology or related field of research OR BSc/MSc with 2+ years experience (preferably industry), integrating and analysing ‘omics and biomedical datasets to directly support Drug Discovery activities.
• Experience analysing ‘omics data and applying state-of-the-art methods to address biological problems.
• Excellent communicator, both verbal and written, with the ability to influence at all levels and across all departments.
• Strong programming ability in relevant frameworks and languages such as Python, R, WDL, CWL, Nextflow, or shell scripting. Candidates should also be familiar with the language packages that support Bioinformatics, Data Science and Machine Learning activities.
• Experience in using technologies we like, which include: GitLab, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, AWS, Jupyter, MySQL, Neo4j, GraphQL, BigQuery, ElasticSearch, MongoDB and Spark.

• Hands-on experience working with Omics data types such as RNA-Seq, scRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C, WES, WGS, proteomic, metabolomic data etc. from different sources.
• Experience with DNAnexus platform and the SDK to develop analytic tools would be considered beneficial.
• Strong background and understanding of different NGS technologies including Illumina sequencing and 10X Genomics.

About us

BenevolentAI unites AI with human expertise to discover new and more effective medicines. Our unique computational R&D platform spans every step of the drug discovery process, powering an in-house pipeline of over 25 drug programmes. We advance our mission to reinvent drug discovery by harnessing the power of a diverse team, rich with different backgrounds, experiences, opinions and personalities. In our offices in London and New York and research facility in Cambridge (UK), we work in highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams, harnessing skills across biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, machine learning, informatics, precision medicine and drug discovery.

We share a passion for being part of a mission that matters, and we are always looking for curious and collaborative people who share our values and want to be part of our journey. If that sounds like a fit for you, hit the ‘apply’ button and join us.

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