Genomic Applications Bioinformatician

5 months ago


Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford Nanopore Technologies Full time

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere

Curiosity, learning drive and interest in the genomics domain are crucial. Knowledge of modern methods in genomics tools development (minimizers, minhash sketching, etc), and/or real-life experience with sequencing data analysis is a plus.

**The duties.**
- Working closely with members of other teams at ONT to get feedback and stay up to date with the latest and upcoming technological developments.
- Interacting with other data analysts and bioinformaticians in the company, to efficiently use and adapt their tools.
- Preparing clear and comprehensive documentation on the developed software and working with Nanopore and Metrichor Developers to facilitate integration of developed methods to Epi2me
- Planning the appropriate experiments for benchmarking and showcasing developed methods Updating other bioinformaticians in the company on the latest developments and best usage practices

**What we're looking for.**
- Relevant degree or software engineering experience
- Extensive contribution (at least one) real-life codebase
- Strong programming and software design skills
- Firm knowledge of standard algorithms and data structures
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Basic data wrangling and visualisation
- Proficiency in some general-purpose programming language

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.

**#LI-JR1**

Oxford Nanopore's goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology enabling the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis of DNA and RNA. The technology is used in more than 100 countries to understand the biology of humans and diseases, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses and whole environments.

Oxford Nanopore was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford and now employs over 1000 employees around the world.



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