Junior Research Engineer – Bioinformatician In Transcriptomics (Re1)

Context And Mission

The candidate will join Marta Melé's Transcriptomics and Functional Genomics lab within the Life Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The lab is interested in understanding how the information encoded in our genome determines gene expression variation across individuals and cell types. We ultimately want to understand how expression changes in both coding and non-coding genes are associated with phenotypic differences between individuals, including disease risk. Our lab uses novel computational tools and high-throughput functional assays to tackle these questions.
The candidate will develop and establish pipelines for the analysis of thousands of human transcriptomes from both bulk RNA-seq and single-cell RNA-seq datasets. He/she will develop new tools to analyze expression and splicing variation across human tissues and develop statistical methods to ultimately understand the relationship between gene expression and human disease.

Key Duties


- Provide support to the lab to conduct cutting-edge research
- Help publishing results in high-profile scientific journals
- Collaborate with various international research groups


Requirements


- Education
Degree in Bioinformatics, Biotechnology or any field related to biomedicine.
Master's thesis in bioinformatics.
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
Strong programming skills including proficiency in programming with bash, python, R, Perl, or similar, and/or experience working in HPC clusters
Some experience with Next Generation Sequencing data analysis
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English
- Competences
Capacity to contribute to research projects with novel research ideas and analysis
Capacity to work as a team in a highly collaborative and diverse environment


Conditions

- The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
- We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
- Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
- Starting date: asap


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