Computational Biologist for Immunotherapy

15 hours ago


Oxford, United Kingdom Immunocore Full time
Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced bioinformatician to work closely with Research and Bioinformatics/Data Science teams at Immunocore, a pioneering biotechnology company developing transformative medicines for oncology, infectious diseases, and autoimmune disease. The ideal candidate will be a driven, curious, and collaborative scientist passionate about using data to uncover biological insights and contribute to drug discovery programmes.

Responsibilities
  • Work in interdisciplinary teams across protein engineering and bioinformatics to develop and integrate data science approaches into TCR and antibody discovery and optimisation.
  • Analyse, manage, and organise datasets generated across a protein engineering campaign, including high-throughput screening and immune repertoire sequencing datasets.
  • Collaborate with experimental biologists to design and automate the capture, organisation, and analysis of experimental data for biologics drug discovery.
Requirements

The successful candidate will have:

  • Experience with NGS, bioinformatics sequence analysis, and alignment tools.
  • A good working knowledge of R and Python, with fluency in at least one of these coding languages.
  • Experience in using common data analysis packages and bioinformatics tools.
  • Experience with Linux environments and version control (git).
  • A strong record of scientific publications and/or contribution to bioinformatics tools in relevant subjects.
  • Demonstrated ability to closely collaborate with experimental scientists.
  • Pays attention to detail, highly organised.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Education & Qualifications

The ideal candidate will hold a PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, or similar discipline, with a minimum of 5-8 years of related experience working with genomics data. Alternatively, an MSc degree with extensive role-specific equivalent research or industrial experience may be considered.



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