Senior NGS Bioinformatician

Rejoignez SOPHiA GENETICS en tant que Senior NGS Bioinformatician. Impactez la médecine de précision.

Tâches

• Diriger l'exploration des données pour le développement de produits.

• Évaluer la performance des kits NGS et l'exactitude analytique.

• Proposer des améliorations aux outils analytiques et à l'architecture.

Compétences

• Minimum 4 ans d'expérience en bioinformatique ou équivalent.

• Excellentes compétences en communication et présentation.

• Expérience approfondie en analyse de données NGS.

Are you an experienced Bioinformatician specializing in NGS data analysis? Ready to take on impactful new projects at the forefront of precision medicine?

If this sounds like you and you are driven by purpose, join the SOPHiA GENETICS Bioinformatic Product Development team as our Senior NGS Bioinformatician, and enable us to make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide.

This role is a hybrid opportunity, requiring 3 days onsite our corporate office in Rolle, CH.

Our Mission
We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.

Your Mission
As our Senior NGS Bioinformatician you will lead data exploration efforts to address practical questions that arise during product development. You will work with diverse datasets that vary by gene panel, sample type, enrichment technology, sequencing platform, and more. Your work will involve assessing NGS kit and chemistry performance, evaluating the analytical accuracy of SOPHiA GENETICS products, and conducting in-depth, product-focused analyses.Your insights will directly contribute to the evolution of our products. This may include proposing and implementing improvements to probe design, analytical tools (pipeline modules), and overall pipeline architecture.

The vale you bring
• Run SOPHIA GENETICS NGS pipelines in default mode
• Modify some scripts/modules manually for research purpose
• Understand the functions of each script/module in SG pipeline
• Carry out quality assessment and analytical performance on different chemicals or platforms by established metrics
• Perform data exploration on other practical questions related to product feasibility study to provide actionable insights
• Explore new technical/biological features (e.g. UMI diversity) in deep to provide scientific insights and present the results logically
• Analyze dataset from collaborators and provide exploration results on time
• Join the discussion with collaborators for project progress and present the results
• Prepare NGS analysis results and present to customers and prospective clients at conferences and workshops

Requirements
• Minimum of 4 years Post-Doc experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or related field; Or PhD degree and equivalent relevant working experience
• Extensive experience with targeted sequencing data analysis
• Hands on experience analyzing NGS data
• Experience with the research, design and/or development of regulated medical devices is a plus
• Strong background in cancer cell biology is a plus
• Excellent communication & presentation skills (English is a must, any other language is an asset)

Benefits
You will be joining an organization with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.
Business recognition and accolades include:
• World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
• World's smartest companies (Top 50)
• 100 Best Places to Work in Boston (2022-2025)
• Top 10 European Tech Startup
• Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
• Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch

Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview:
• Sickness and Accident coverage through Helsana
• Meal Vouchers at 90CHF PM with our partner cafeteria
• A fun and engaging work environment, with Rest & Entertainment space, full stocked free coffee machine and free fruit
• Free parking in an easy to access location
• A strong social committee whose purpose is to make SOPHiA GENETICs both enjoyable as well as rewarding
• As our global HQ, you’ll have direct interaction and exposure to senior leadership and our executive team locally

Our DNA
Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous

Our Virtues
At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action.  We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.
At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal

Starting Date: ASAP
Location: Rolle, Switzerland - (Hybrid, 3 Days Per Week)
Contract: Permanent