Bioinformatician in sequence analysis and design

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet conducts research and teaching within immunology, infection biology, cell biology and cancer. MTC have about 40 research groups and our key words are multidisciplinary, bridging, national and international collaborations.

The Murrell lab, at MTC, KI, is a mixed computational and experimental lab working at the intersection of computational biology, virology, immunology, and evolution. See here for recent work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I80vy5cAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate

Current projects involve building models of molecular evolution, and various applications of deep learning.

Your mission

Duties of this role involve:

• Contributing to, creating, and maintaining Julia codebases and packages
• Computational experimentation, comparing methods, etc
• Maintaining and administering the lab computing infrastructure

Your profile

Requirements for the position:

• Demonstrable expertise in programming and methods development in computational biology, especially related to topics in sequence alignment, protein structure representation, manipulation, and visualization.
• Demonstrable high-level expertise and productivity with the Julia language, specifically in a computational biology setting, with multiple publicly available Julia packages that you have created and maintain, with extensive and active contributions in the past year.
• Experience with GPU computing in Julia, including through interfaces like Flux.jl, and writing custom CUDA kernels.
• Familiarity with concepts in basic probability theory, geometry, and linear algebra.
• At least some work experience (not concurrent with education) in a Bioinformatician role.
• Ability to communicate (spoken and written) clearly in English

Expertise in Julia will be assessed via a technical programming test.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Our vision is to pursue the development of knowledge about life and to promote a better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several good benefits through our collective agreement. And you get to practice freely in our modern wellness facilities, where trained staff are on site.

Location: Solna

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Application

Welcome to apply at the latest 2024-09-27.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.In this recruitment, you will apply with your CV without a personal letter. Instead, you will answer some questions about why you are applying for the job in the application form. 

Permanent position is initiated by a six months trial period.

Want to make a difference? Join us and contribute to better health for all